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Senior forge-priest of Ystaeria at Tuur and Istora's loudest Traditionalist, who calls Queen Lamenrae's Winterwood-timber export the slow sale of the ancestors.

Queen Lamenrae's senior counselor in Istora; the advisor who built the case against Prince Taoinor and has held the eastern court together through the war.

The Titanic Priesthood's measurer, who surveyed the poisoned south, mapped the whole truth of it, and keeps that map sealed to hold titan-bone prices high.

An ancient Winter Elf king murdered on Murder Creek a thousand years before Istor XXVI; now the war-spirit Klevnaf soldiers petition before battle.

The murdered last king of the unified Winter Elves, whose death split the realm into Klevnaf and Istora and fed fresh shadow into Murder Creek.

Queen of Istora and first woman to claim the Winter Elf throne; daughter of the murdered Istor XXVI, certain past all argument that Taoinor, her father's uncle, killed him.

Aging prince of Klevnaf and uncle of the murdered Istor XXVI; blamed for a regicide he did not commit, guilty of the half-kingdom he seized once it was done.

A Tamadrezan smuggler-captain who carries escaped slaves north through the one stretch of sea no Gorathi ship will enter: Agtakkeri's waters.

Employs Viktor, a rising lich mage and crafter

Head of Azantir's oldest banking house and the crown's chief creditor. He funds Gorath's legions against conquests not yet made.

The loudest hawk on the Warcouncil of Levke, who wants Trømgar to march on Gorath through Nashua and break the slavers in open battle, and calls the proxy war a disgrace.

The most powerful person on Alaria: a nine-thousand-year-old lich who once emptied a coast to cheat one death, failed, and has wanted nothing since.

The last Tolarian mage-king and chief architect of the Apparatus of Severance, frozen conscious at its heart living the disaster he caused.

The Gorathi port-boss who runs one of the Slaver's Coast extraction ports as a clerk runs a warehouse, treating occupation as paperwork.

Emperor Veramus's son. In a republic that elects its emperors from victorious generals, a son with no victory inherits nothing.

The Belenstrope halfling merchant of Adnar who spent four years brokering the charter that founded the Aldriktch Trade Alliance around 3200 SD.

First Consul of Camaran, whose signature commissioned the Deoric working that became the Camaran Blight, and who has ruled in penance for it since.

The general the Moon Wilds unmade. Three legions went west under his standard; he champions the bounty on the Vexling Queen to win them back.

Head of Watar's ruling merchant council and the Strugmar trading house, pressing Watar's claim to the Telphineas Strait against the Alliance's own charter.

Prince of Joswik, the youngest of Ofrenia's three royal siblings; he has tried to make peace with Tornia for years without ever learning why it keeps failing.

Praetor of Azantir and master of its slave-markets. He has never won a battle, and he means to prove an emperor does not need to.

King of the Güli giants from Gülheim for over two centuries, ceremonial arbiter of the clans, lately restless and looking west toward Camaran.

A Tuktuk paragon of fog and water who hid a massacre of his own kin, now a self-exiled lich atoning in the Shroud Isles.

The Warcouncil handler who runs Trømgar's cold war for the enslaved Drasnians, fighting with gold and ledgers where his people expect steel.

The Moon Road's best guide through the Moon Wilds. He reads the Vexling broods the way other men read weather, and knows the one brood that lets his columns pass.

Kassander Volso's chief broker at Slavewatch, who keeps the bribe-ledger that decides which passes are watched and which careers end.

Hermelia was a fire and air mage of considerable power who became infamous for burning the city of Shtaneres in Breia to the ground before…

Head of the cartel that feeds and arms Gorath's legions. He fixes the price of war by choosing what crosses the Divinity Passage.

The closest thing the Tamadrezan north has to a resistance leader, holding a rising back until a Gorathi succession crisis opens the door.

Tribune of Slavewatch, the corrupt officer who polices the slave passes by selling passage through them to everyone at once.

Harbor-Reeve of Nadang and the Tamadrezan end of Slavewatch's navigation-fee system. Secretly, the Moon Road's single most important asset.

The Tarkhon general who cleared the Eronia Range two centuries ago—honored as empire's greatest hero, remembered by others as its greatest butcher.

The speculator who got rich betting that slave prices would only ever climb. The Kyagos uprising broke that bet, and now it is breaking him.

First Marshal who has held the Nashua front for eleven years. The general Emperor Veramus dares not recall, and dares not leave where he is.

The Belenstrope halfling who heads the Erasnus merchant council, charged with keeping the Aldriktch Trade Alliance intact as it pulls apart.

An extremely powerful and thoroughly insane druid who dwells in the northeastern Elder Wilds, where three Anchor Trees stand in unusual proximity.

The escaped Drasnian who built the Moon Road. She walked out of Gorath through the Moon Wilds alone, then spent her freedom sending others the same way.

A Winter Elf commander killed in the Crimson Coast succession war, risen from the River of Wights as a wight-lord that commands the dead and serves no master.

A war-profiteer grown rich on Gorath's endless campaigns, now quietly funding the escape network that bets the empire will fall.

The Tolarian mage-queen who argued the Apparatus would not hold, was overruled, and stayed to stop it. Frozen mid-warning at Elderran's center.

A Gorathi war-chaplain tranced in the Moon Wilds years ago and never consumed, now the living heart of the one Vexling brood that does not kill.

First Speaker of the Bestacian republic, a Goshwen gnome managing three crises with a treasury and no army.

The Hammer-Primate of Gorath's war-faith, who means to put out every Drasnian forge-fire until nothing of the conquered remains to worship.

The Goshwen gnome jurist of Bestacia who drafted the Aldriktch charter, turning Corwen Hostling's bargain into terms five rival states could sign.

Undefeated champion of the Free Isles coliseums: a massive Chargon clad in armor of her own glowing blood, wielding a sword full of screams.

A junior Camaran magistrate whose legally airtight petition against the anti-magic ban sits, unanswered, on the First Consul's desk.

Prince of Sylke, the quiet middle sibling who secretly sustains the war between Tornia and Joswik to keep his small kingdom the island's indispensable broker.

A Slavewatch lieutenant who runs his patrols by the book and empties the passes of the people his Tribune has sold.

A creole broker out of Nadang who keeps the bribe economy running and makes a practice of never asking where the cargo goes.

An ancient druid who dwells in the interior of L'Coth D'hari, in the Elder Wilds.

The Moon Road's organizer inside the Pesalolo slave camps. Three centuries of bondage were meant to break the Drasnians. He is the standing proof they didn't.

The immortal halfling king of Kerwin, ancient when Tarkhon was young, the living witness no dynasty can outlast.

A Deoric mage of the Lost Ages whose abandoned household of reanimated servants became the ghoul infestation of Bestacia's forests.

A slaver captain working the Slaver's Coast circuit, twice sunk by the dragon Agtakkeri and superstitious about every dawn at sea.

A thread-binder of Chaal Nazzerox sent up the River of Wights to leash the masterless wight-lord Mylanor; the binding failed and he did not return.

Veramus's spymaster, sent under a false name to learn how far Slavewatch had rotted. What she found could unmake the emperor she serves.

Emperor of Gorath: sixty-three, elected from its own generals, kept on the throne only by new victories. The Moon Wilds defeat is unmaking him.

The Tolarian mage-king who fled Elderran before the Apparatus fired and so escaped the severance. Still alive, still loose, still chasing a purified magic.

The founding thane of Vogenfeld who set the terms of the Pass of Oaths bargain, speaking for the Council of Thanes around 2876 SD.

Leads Chaal Nazzerox.

Killed by Gyash.

The current king of Enymu, who keeps his ancestors' grain compact with Tarkhon out of a loyalty his emperor does not return.

Long dead wizard.

Massive (18 feet) four-armed ogre.

Legion war-chaplain of the Iron of the Eternal March, who blesses the brand and the lash and keeps a ledger of the provinces he has helped break.

Controls Blackport.

An enslaved Drasnian smith-priest who kept Krondeum's forge-rite under the brand and joined the war-church schism that prays to the same daemon she does.

A giant with skystones chained to his wrists, high in the sky above him.

A vigilante gone rogue Sharabha.

Pixie cut, tan robes, strawberry hair.

The pale daughter of Lorus and his wife, the Countess Buchannon.

Feriptus is a very powerful lich, living in his reclusive fortress Ipt, located in the far North, near the Nirvanis Mountains.

Gihatti pulled humanity out of the thousand year iceage when he discovered and traveled to Celestia, thereby becoming a god and uniting the world and…

Gino is a high level human who enchanted himself with eternal life.

Villain, killer of Taler's daughter

The last King of Argysis, who chose to break his own kingdom rather than let the dragons take it whole, and died beneath Othyndria.

Yaif's High Priest of Origins, keeper of the records that name exactly what Tarkhon owes for the Evertorch's fire.

Founder of the Waterdark order and the master who cut every dragon-bond in Adron; remembered as the realm's reluctant savior.

King of Kabir, fifty-two, risen from the merchant houses. He means to reclaim Tarkhon through trade, not war. His rivals call it collaboration.

King of Myorna.

Non-binary, but goes by the 'prince of frost'.

The last great rider of the Wyrmward, bonded to the dragon Ardomos when the Severing struck and took the dragon from him in a single hour.

Head of the foremost of Adron's banking houses and the present face of the houses that govern the kingdom from Adrak.

Silver armored, revenant hunter.

Head of House Aelvanor and the Landsmeet's quiet voice for secession, on terms she has already half-arranged with Deo Esari.

Sculptor and reluctant regent of Gissemari, ruling for his child-queen daughter. On the Council he votes for whatever ends the meeting fastest.

Lives in Satyrn Gray, a palace in the Plains of Oblivion.

The seven-year-old Queen of Gissemari, who reigns in name while her father Vhelan rules as regent.

Queen of Wadiyah, thirty-four years old, the most dangerous voice on the Council of Four Flames—and the one most certain the waiting is over.

The Queen of Love is a interdimensional demon disguised as a mystical, solitary queen.

Queen of Yaif, nearly eighty and sixty-three years on the throne. The Council's voice of patience: outlast Tarkhon, do not fight it.

The desert king of Kazül, whose rule rests on a summoning ring recovered from the Ederhi ruins that answers him and no one else.

The current human king of Tarkhon, governing from Tarkhetan—the first dynasty that no longer remembers what it replaced.

The war-chaplain who broke from the Hammer-Primate, refuses to bless the lash, and recruits among the very Drasnian slaves the Iron means to erase.

Master of the Waterdark order's shadow-arm, scapegoated and cast out in the Megélren Exile; named first of the killing-cells that work the Middle Sea.

Trømgar's operative inside the slave country: a Strømgodden living under a metals-trader's cover in Tamadrez, moving Levke's gold into the Moon Road.

The dwarf who led the survivors of Argysis east into Hephake, and shaped the survivor-state they became.

The Iron Orc is a legendary figure, particularly among the black orc tribes who take pride in their naturally tough skin.

Cross between poseidon and a decrepit old hag.

Versisi is the half-druid, half-naga royal consort of the sapphire dragon Synthyd.

A Honey Lord land-factor sent from Fozyader to the Kro Shiik convocation, offering the Rakiten water-rent for a river they hold sacred.