Minor Figures of Proturas¶
The lesser named people of Proturas and its reach in the Fifth Age: its rulers and counts, its arbiters and warlocks, the gangs and neighbours of the Warrens, the people of the High Vale and the Rift, and the ascendants and powers glimpsed in the dreams of Inwe. Each entry gives what the sources say and names them in a closing note. Player characters are not listed here; they are in the Proturan Campaign, whose cast this page shares.
Agrom¶
A beggar of the Warrens, "a beggar by trade, he comes and goes", and friend of the young miner Begral (S038, S064). One of the neighbours of the cave the party rented.
Sources: S038, S064, S065.
Aiduin¶
A Wood Elf held in a Lorsythian prison who befriended the High Elf Argo there and "taught you a bit of Sylvan (a wood elf dialect of Elvish)" (S074).
Sources: S074.
Aion¶
An Ascendant of Kalar, steward of Kalar's domain while his master sleeps. At the Council of the Quad on the Dias of Algahanni he "stands from his alabaster throne, his white and golden robes flowing around him and assuming an air of authority", and refuses any plan to take the plane of Denitrus from Kalar: "Taking Denitrus by force from my master is not an option; it is a declaration of war between us." He left the council vowing, "Should you move against any speck of dust owned by Kalar, know that I will be waiting and will not suffer you!" Inwe judged that "Aion was always the reasonable one" and hoped he would cool (S031).
Sources: S031, S071.
Ather¶
A young warlock of twenty-one, "Hermit (Warlock)" and "Brother of Deron", who defends Deron's tomb in the marshes of Algher. His demon is a bone demon; he charms lizardkin and has his demon possess the toad-like Ra'ana, and lures undead and stirges onto intruders with a beacon (S073).
Sources: S073.
Begral¶
"The young miner": he works steady shifts in the clay mines, is friends with Agrom, and is saving the dues to join the miners of Chester's Corner (S038, S065).
Sources: S038, S065.
Belgin¶
One of "a pair of elderly dwarves, Brock and Belgin", who run the Bronze Lake Expedition Company. "Back a hundred years ago the dwarves were explorers and adventurers. Now they organize expeditions to plunder ancient settlements far to the south, or even into the rift for a profit" (S072).
Sources: S072.
Bertran Godebert¶
The immortal paladin who leads the White Fire, "Highlord Bertran Godebert, who presides in a chapter house within the City of Light" in Proturas (S078). He has his own page.
Sources: S078.
Brock¶
The other elderly dwarf of the Bronze Lake Expedition Company, with Belgin (S072).
Sources: S072.
Caira¶
"A young woman named Caira claiming to be his daughter" who contested the will of the merchant Tevall, who had left everything to his book-keeper Argo; Argo withdrew rather than have his past examined, and acknowledged her "as the rightful heiress" (S074).
Sources: S074.
Callum¶
A mercenary of the Radulf's Relics & Recovery expedition to the tomb of Malathar. He "Died in the dark, could hear his screams"; his blood was on the camp's used bandages (S047).
Sources: S047.
Ceric¶
A driver hired on the road back to Banbridge (S060).
Sources: S060.
Chester¶
"Chester is the leader of a group of 6 miners + 3 partners + 2 kids" who keep a barred cave in the Warrens, Chester's Corner, with a password for the door and one of them always home (S038).
Sources: S038.
Coruucormys¶
A silver dragon, "Patroness of the Silver Moon": the mercenary company is "secretly led by Coruucormys", who "is disguised as a PALADIN bodyguard of the figurehead of the Silver Moon" (S042). See the Silver Moon.
Sources: S042.
Daemos¶
An Arbiter Enforcer of the Proturan Arbiters, one of the four hunting the arsonist of the Dockside fire (S062, S068).
Sources: S068, S062.
Darden¶
A friend Argo made in the Lorsythian prison, who after his own release "came back for you and released you" when the prison was abandoned in the fall of Lorsythe. The two joined the refugees going north to Proturas and worked odd jobs in the slums, until Darden "was killed … in one such fight" between work gangs (S074).
Sources: S074.
Deron¶
A warlock whose recent tomb in the marshes of Algher was the target of the Proturan mini-campaign expedition, said to hold a key and his demon's Dae'medeis. He is "transitioning forms": "warlocks speed up the reincarnation cycle by allowing their souls to transition in a matter of decades", and when the transition is complete "a sacrificial child will be brought to the tomb and possessed by the warlock's spirit." His Shade Demon guards it (S073).
Sources: S073.
Descam¶
"The drunk": "drunk all the time, rarely ever moves, asks for booz", who watches the party's place in the Warrens for drink. "Just bring me some ale er beer er wine or anything really that doesnt taste like piss-water." His favourite is whiskey (S038, S063, S064).
Sources: S038, S063, S064.
Edward¶
A boatman at Vegryn's Tower in the Rift who offered passage "on small (but fast) boat" for 250 gold, against 15,000 for chartering a mercenary company (S048, S052).
Sources: S048, S052.
Edwin¶
A labourer of the Radulf expedition who came back to Banbridge "with a couple minor injuries and looked sick and afraid", said the camp had been abandoned, and died of the tomb's plague in the care of Giles (S047).
Sources: S047.
Eigurd Pallidine¶
The first-born son of Harald Pallidine and commander of the brigade defending Proturas City, who "was able to quickly consolidate power after a brief civil conflict" when his father was assassinated in 798 AL, and "was officially elevated to the position of High Lord Councillor by the Proturan Council in late 799 AL." Under him the council divided Proturan lands "into Counties and each county was administered by a Count or Countess appointed by the council", with inheritance subject to the council's approval (S107). See the Proturan Council.
Sources: S107.
Eliron¶
A warlock of the Warlocks of the Blue Flame ("secret agent of ??") who hired an expedition to excavate the tomb of the warlock Deron, holding "a Passage and Import Writ from the Proturan Council" granted after he showed that the dead warlock had stolen a valuable artifact from him. He owns a slave, a former captain of Lorsythe, and keeps an apprentice (S073).
Sources: S073.
Elsie¶
One of two who escaped the fight at Dunstan's country manor: "ELSIE & ?? the apprentice escaped" (S041). Whether she is the apprentice of Valtor who was there is not clear.
Sources: S041.
Elysius¶
"Someone/something called Elysius at the Lundewic library", whom Malathar's steward Perithus was ordered to acquire on the way to the Etterwood (S052).
Sources: S052.
Encaelia¶
An Arbiter Warden of the Proturan Arbiters, one of the four hunting the Dockside arsonist (S062, S068).
Sources: S068, S062.
Erich¶
"A human farmer" who found the High Elf Argo in a ditch, "covered in blood and muck", about 250 years before the campaign. He tended him, taught him to walk and speak again, and hid him, because "there were bad folk around looking to kill Elves". Argo worked his farm for years afterward. "Erich died due to a fever" (S074).
Sources: S074.
Eweleun¶
"The Sylvilagus, Eweleun", gatekeeper of the Vernal Warrens, a realm of Arya into which Arya cast one of the Fallen. Monan of Nyx named her to Inwe with a key to the Warrens: "With gatekeeper and key, you should have little trouble locating the Fallen." Inwe already knew her, but not that she kept that gate (S031).
Sources: S031, S071.
Gaelwyn¶
A companion of the party in the Rift and the Etterwood. Gaelwyn broke out of Malathar's Mist Keep with them (S050), and at the Shrine of Caerylas received from the priestess Caolynni an Amulet of Shifting that "reduces form shifting costs", with the charge to "defend the Seed of Caerylas and its bearer" (S056, S057). That suggests a shapeshifter.
Gap
Who Gaelwyn is, where they come from and whether they are a player character is not said.
Sources: S057, S056, S054, S050.
Gofrei¶
"Hired Soldier" with the Blue Flame expedition to Deron's tomb, one of its party NPCs (S073). He is not Gofrei Varley.
Sources: S073.
Gregory¶
"Husband in family that runs a farm outside Banbridge", a friend of the party (S068).
Sources: S068.
Grimbac¶
A warlock of the Raven Concord, the old mentor of the warlock Ashtareth (S068). When the arbiters came to Ravenhold with a warrant for the Concord, he refused them entry and warned the members by their rings: "it is safe to assume that this is a further betrayal from Valtor and his followers and that their aim is not merely to seize our property, but is a direct threat to your lives." Trapped while trying to secure the Tear of Inwe, he was cut off mid-sentence (S051). He is held in "Black Iron Hold … a converted Dwarven Hold below Proturas for powerful and magical prisoners" (S051). Before his capture he left 25,000 gold, Concord titles belonging to the Silver Moon and a letter naming Ashtareth "my sole agent" in vault 429A of the Zerajic Bank, its secret name Algahanni (S051).
Sources: S068, S061, S051.
Hangman¶
The mysterious leader of the Drowned Ring, the gang of the Gallows and the northern Warrens: "a self-taught female warlock … which manipulates her three lieutenants" (S061, S028; S068 names only "the mysterious Hangman"). The Ring was dismantled when the Warrens was annexed (S051).
Also called: Esrilla (S061); Ezralis (S028).
Sources: S068, S061, S051, S040, S028, S105.
Harald Pallidine¶
Warmaster of the Proturan Army in the disastrous years of the Barbarian and Second Araxian wars, when "more and more power ended up in the hands of the Warmaster". He was "elected as the council representative for the Warlocks and then shortly after by The Alliance", and reorganized the federation "into the Proturan Council with the High Councillor position at its head (with himself as High Lord Councillor)", folding the faction armies into the Proturan Brigades. He was assassinated in 798 AL, with "no specific transition plan"; "Evidence for the assassination points at the Araxians" (S107).
Sources: S107.
Helmut¶
The man who bought a silver knife "discovered in the Rift" and kept it "for some time until it was stolen by a kobold thief … at the behest of Hobard" for the client K31. The knife later came to Argo (S074).
Sources: S074.
Hrok'thog¶
"Princeps Hrok'thog of Agor'haem (one of the nine Priest rulers of Agor'haem)" in the borderlands of the Urok'gar Confederation, who sensed the Seed of Caerylas as it passed (S059).
Sources: S059.
Invariel¶
A mistress of the Raven Concord, "cut down by the Proturans" with master Ulster while helping Grimbac retrieve the Tear of Inwe at Ravenhold (S051).
Sources: S051.
Irek¶
"Aeten'Daru (Trollfather) named Irek (EYE-REK)", who lives in the Troll Warrens of the Urok'gar borderlands. "As a Trollfather, he can merge with stone at will and pass through stone. His 'children' are the Rock Trolls and their lifeforce is bound to him. He is an Elemental Earth Archon." He has two "brothers", but "there were once many Trollfathers living here in peace before the orcs came and destroyed or enslaved many of his kind"; his children are bound now by the Urok's collars. "He has no love for Dwarves … However, aside from their greed … they are better than Orcs." He keeps two greater rockworms, Aeten'Thoqqua, and knows "the path to unused underground roads to the Southwest" (S059). See Elementals and Trolls.
Sources: S059.
Isendria Sel'Dorais¶
Queen of Vael'Dorais with Ubravan, and mother of the prince Arvandor, born 156 AL. When Ubravan sentenced their son to death for his experiments, "your mother pleaded on your behalf for exile" (S044).
Sources: S044.
Kaermus¶
"Old Man (Proturan Warden in disguise) in the Pale Pit", asking after the White Hand and the Tenebrians and "willing to pay" for news (S038).
Sources: S038.
Lacey¶
"Wife in family that runs a farm outside Banbridge" (S068).
Sources: S068.
Leaothe¶
A wood elf ranger, nicknamed Greywine, the first known instance of the Greywine mutation "which has enabled these mutated Wood Elves to move around easily in the Rift"; it is believed to be the work of the Viridian Order (S078). See Wood Elves.
Sources: S078.
Lorna¶
"Crazy Herbalist near Drunken Dwarf Inn", on the road to Banbridge (S068, S060).
Sources: S068, S060.
Lysellion¶
A Master Guildsman of the Dockside Cutters after the annexation of the Warrens. "He says there is something rotten at the core of the Cutters and he needs someone he can trust to help him weed it out (what? Hidden deals, Cultist ties, Human trafficking, Deals with Proturan Authorities…)". He "is sorry to hear about Berek and the Warrens" (S051).
Sources: S051.
Maggam¶
The smith to whom Hobard sold the kobold thief Zygzil "so that you could work in the smithy … said you scared customers off" (S074). The notes elsewhere write "Matt / Maggam" for the dwarven artificer Maggem, a player character (S062), so this is probably Maggem; the chronicle covers him.
Sources: S074, S062.
Malva¶
"The fortune-teller": "a middle-aged wood-elf fortune teller", a neighbour in the Warrens (S038).
Sources: S038.
Marvelo¶
An Arbiter Augur of the Proturan Arbiters, who leads the four hunting the Dockside arsonist (S062, S068).
Sources: S068, S062.
Matron¶
Named once, with Dala Stonefoot, among the matters the Silver Moon's Revan pressed for: "Dala + Matron" (S042, S044). Nothing else is said.
Sources: S044, S042.
Miro¶
"Friend of the party, new barkeep. (He was the rowboat rower/prisoner of the Tenebrians)" (S068).
Sources: S068.
Monan¶
An Ascendant of Nyx, "his features hidden under a deep hooded robe", who sat in the Council of the Quad. He urged the Ascendants to "discard all our prejudices in this matter … and look for common cause amongst the other Gods and Ascendants outside the pantheon", then quietly gave Inwe a key to the Vernal Warrens and the name of its gatekeeper. Asked how he knew, he said only: "Secrets must be kept. You know what you need" (S031).
Sources: S031, S071.
Monmort¶
Lord Monmort is the leader of the Silver Moon, "a good resource" whom the Concord's Grimbac trusted to reclaim the company's property from the Ravenhold vaults (S051). Zolnira arranged with him that Ashtareth would be made "the safekeeper of Morwen's Tome of Bloodrot" (S052). If the Silver Moon is in truth led by the dragon Coruucormys disguised as the bodyguard of its figurehead (S042), Monmort is presumably that figurehead; the sources do not join the two.
Sources: S052, S051, S042.
Nadlegade¶
The Lord High Arbiter, whose warrant authorised the siege of Ravenhold: "to seize all members of the Concord for treason and high crimes" (S051).
Sources: S051.
Nardual¶
A wood elf of the elven enclave in Proturas who took in the injured Argo, quickly saw that he "was not a Wood Elf", and treated him well. He warned him off other wood elves and found him work with the merchant Tevall (S074).
Sources: S074.
Nathaniel¶
The mage among the three leaders of the Radulf expedition to Malathar's tomb (S047).
Sources: S047.
Neer¶
The guard of a Blue Banner Brothers warehouse in Spillwater, regularly paid off by Hobard (S036).
Sources: S036.
Otho¶
"Teenage son (14) in family that runs a farm outside Banbridge" (S068).
Sources: S068.
Oxar¶
A warlock of the Blue Flame who owned the young Riftborn later known as Ashtareth as a slave and "did not treat you well". Oxar died in their sleep when she was fourteen; she left, burning the house down, and joined Oxar's rivals of the Raven Concord (S074).
Sources: S074.
Pellik¶
A sub-boss of the Cutters who visited the turncoat Dunstan at his country manor and was captured in the fight there (S039, S040, S041).
Sources: S041, S040, S039.
Peverin¶
A moneychanger in a town of the High Vale, for whom Argo worked for many years before a stranger sent him the silver knife (S074).
Sources: S074.
Principate of the Sages¶
A title, not a name. With two High Precepts of the Houses of Sidcarnon and Barahd, the Principate of the Sages led the Unholy Flight from fallen Sanctorum that founded the kingdoms of the Divine Alliance. The Precepts were executed for desertion; "The Principate revealed that the Divine had left the earth and that the Empress would only return after the races were worthy of her again and the earth had been purified of abominations." Since then the Alliance has been ruled by a Prophet or Prophetess (S078).
Sources: S078.
Pye'dara¶
A wood elf forest guide, "Eksuru's other people" in Etterdun, who met Malathar's expedition at the inn called The Elf's Ears and led it into the Etterwood by "a quick passage into the deep forest past the front lines" (S051). She left the dig at Kae'Ferrel "to scout the Shrine of Caerylas for Malathar" (S056), and was captured and killed (S054).
Also called: Pye'Dara (S054), Pae'Dara (S053, S056).
Sources: S056, S054, S053, S051.
Radulf¶
The head of Radulf's Relics & Recovery, "a company which specializes in excavations and expeditions" (S068). "Radulf himself was on the scene" of the expedition that opened Malathar's tomb (S047).
Sources: S068, S047.
Ravenna¶
The captain of the Radulf expedition. After the tomb was opened "Ravenna has been converted into a Plague-Ghoul and guards the tomb with the 5 zombies" (S047).
Sources: S047.
Revan¶
An agent of the Silver Moon to whom its captain Veldin reported. He came to Proturas on news of Berek's return, "You say Berek has returned from the dead? By what divine power?", met Veldin at the Blue Ram Tavern in Upper Stairs, and meant to pass what he learned to the head of the Silver Moon and visit Berek himself (S042, S044).
Sources: S044, S042.
Rou¶
"Digger" with the Blue Flame expedition to Deron's tomb (S073).
Sources: S073.
Serle¶
"Digger, Cook: Stew+Bread" with the Blue Flame expedition to Deron's tomb (S073).
Sources: S073.
Taun¶
"A minotaur in the Pale Pit" (S068). The worst face of Berek's die is "A bull's head. REALLY BAD : A Minotaur (named Taun) and no one is given weapons. The minotaur literally rips people apart with its bare hands and horns" (S061). The crowd chants "Give em to Taun!" Berek hid a stolen Proturan Bank token in his cage (S029). See Minotaur.
Sources: S068, S062, S061, S029.
Tevall¶
"A human merchant", kindly, who employed Argo as a labourer and "unlocked your appetite for learning", buying books to keep ahead of him and making him chief book-keeper. Childless, he left Argo everything (S074).
Sources: S074.
Thorne¶
The academic among the Radulf expedition's leaders. He was "alive and captured", his blood on the command tent's table; the one expedition member left at the camp was "captured by Dala" (S047).
Sources: S047.
Tlat'Sapa of Merriq¶
The authority under which Merriq's Garden is "operated", the Rift trade town of the hidden Vale of Merriq, "an independent city-state under the protection of the Proturan Pact" (S066). Whether the Tlat'Sapa is a person or an office is not said. See the Rift.
Sources: S066.
Turick Elgonned¶
"Count Turick Elgonned (Lord Elgonned, who lives in palatial estate in Palladine)", Count of Spillwater. He appoints a mayor and three city councillors, one "suspected to be on the Cutters payroll". "The primary concern of the Count is for Spillwater to keep the trade flowing … He and the administration ultimately care little for the populace" (S103).
Sources: S103.
Ubravan Sel'Dorais¶
King of Vael'Dorais with Isendria, who exiled his son Arvandor in 426 AL "for terrible magical experiments committed against the citizens of Vael'Dorais", having first sentenced him to death. His troops were believed to have killed Arvandor in a raid in 432 AL (S044).
Sources: S044.
Uffe Birkson¶
"Veldin's Lieutenant" in the Silver Moon (S068), who travelled with the party, went with Dala to see Eksuru's former lair (S044), and left with Veldin to report to their commander (S051).
Also called: Uffe (S044, S051).
Sources: S068, S051, S044.
Ulster¶
A master of the Raven Concord, "cut down by the Proturans" with Invariel at Ravenhold (S051).
Sources: S051.
Urok¶
"The name of the orc which united the confederation 200 years ago"; the Urok'gar Confederation is ruled by the High Urok, its chieftain, a title taken from his name (S057, S059).
Sources: S059, S057.
Veldin¶
"Mercenary Captain of Silver Moon", who signs himself "Stonesword" (S068, S042). Berek assigned him to watch the party (S038), and he reported to the Silver Moon what he saw: "Berrick is still alive somehow, and this smaller group that he has assigned me to was captured then released by some higher power" (S042). He left to "report back to my commander immediately" (S051). The notes that introduce him call him a player's new character (S038); his part is told in the chronicle.
Sources: S068, S051, S044, S042, S038.
Yagrun¶
The owner of a riftship who carried the party out of the Vileryth Demonblight (S051). A runecaster, he received from the priestess Caolynni the three runestones of her old friend Kaelin, with a charge to defend the Seed of Caerylas (S056, S057).
Gap
Nothing more is said of Yagrun, nor whether he is a player character. The famous necromancer Yagrun, father of the necromancer Yagrik, of the Fourth Age underdark notes (S328) is probably another man.
Sources: S057, S056, S054, S051, S328.
Yrilla¶
An Arbiter Enforcer of the Proturan Arbiters, one of the four hunting the Dockside arsonist (S062, S068).
Sources: S068, S062.
Yumarra Eigalhorn¶
"High Priestess Yumarra Eigalhorn, Countess of Southstep", who rules the Stairs from "an estate adjacent to the Temple of the Ancestors in Southstep" and appoints five City Provosts to its daily administration (S104).
Sources: S104.
Zexl'ummus¶
"A Balor-type demon that told Argo about his past. Freed from Valtor's Manor in exchange" (S068).1 Valtor's summoning room held a "medium-sized Frost Demon" kept "primarily for information" (S042); whether this is Zexl'ummus is not said.
Sources: S068, S042.
Zolnira¶
"One of the 3 Raven Concord Warlock Elders" (S068). Away from Ravenhold when it fell, she organised a refuge for loyal members, warned them that Valtor could track the Concord's rings, and called them to the Amberhouse in the Steps (S051). Her curse on the traitor: "with Inwe's grace, may laborious pain and death come swiftly to the traitor Valtor!" (S051). She arranged with Lord Monmort the keeping of Morwen's Tome (S052).
Sources: S068, S052, S051.