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NPC LIST
updated 6/1/2018 Brian
White rioters: Young men and women posing as Biały partisans during the fake Market Square Riot. They are probably Biały partisans in truth. (S1)
Red rioters: Young men and women posing as Czerwony partisans during the fake Market Square Riot. They are probably Biały partisans in truth. (S1)
Sergeant Jerzy: A captain of the Budorigum city guard and knowledgeable in tactics to counter Brute Squads. (S1) He provides G with information about Imelda Mundt and trains K on patrol tactics. (S2) He briefly encounters K at the start of the opera and warns him that fights sometimes break out at performances. (S4)
Reporter: A reporter from the Budorigum Gazette dispatched to witness the fake Market Square Riot. (S1)
Dubekya Czerny: An artist assisting the reporter to cover the fake Market Square Riot. He is dazzled by I and offers her a modeling gig. He also agrees to do some investigating of recent pirate attacks on her behalf. (S1)
Kolya: A man who notices B during the fake Market Square Riot. (S1) He is a low-level Ussuran gangster, who has been seeking a bearer of Tură's Mark in order to learn the sorcerous Gift of Language of Birds. He agrees to provide some information on merchants who might have dealings with pirates in exchange for information on how to seek out Tură. (S2) He names Nadzieja Dubicki and Rog Ostrowski as prominent merchants known to deal in shady things. B sends him to Crystal Mountain to seek Chernobog. (S4)
Jan: A young man posing as a Czerwony rioter. (S1)
Klaudja: An organizer of the fake Market Square Riot, according to one of the rioters. (S1 m) Lew Budky identifies her as his cousin and defends her reputation at swordpoint. (S3B m) She is a guest at Nadzieja Dubicki's party. She identifies Lew as her brother and has him introduce her to B and K. (S6A) Nadzieja greets Lew and her like old friends. He identifies B to her as the witness of his duel. (S6B)
Messenger boy: A poor boy who delivers a note to B from Kolya. (S1)
Sergeant Jerzy's cousin: A farmer who witnessed Imelda Mundt, holding the hilt half of Volker Kurt Schmid's broken sword, tear out the throat of one of his goats. (S2)
Imelda Mundt: A witch from Eisen. Bearing the hilt half of Volker Kurt Schmid's broken sword, she tore the throat out of a farmer's goat with her teeth. She recently left Budorigum for Saulės Mūšis with bloody arms and a train of frightened retainers. (S2 m) Volker attempted to disrupt her experiments on the bodies of kidnapped children, but she captured him and added him to her experiments. She stole his sword and journal. After learning from the journal who made the sword, she abandoned her experiments and came to Budorigum. Recently she hired Brute Squads to kidnap G and deliver him to Nadzieja Dubicki. (S5 m)
Volker Kurt Schmid: An Eisen soldier who G believes is dead. G sold him a sword that was his finest creation several years ago. (S2 m) He turns up at Tomak's Boarding House alive, but malnourished and gravely injured. He sends Jan to fetch G. He reveals that he attempted to disrupt Imelda Mundt's experiments on the bodies of kidnapped children in Eisen, but was instead captured and added to her experiments. She stole his sword and journal. After learning from the journal who made the sword, she abandoned her experiments and came to Budorigum, allowing him to escape. He followed her here to warn G and to attempt to disrupt her schemes. B takes him back to the Three Larks to nurse him back to health. (S5)
Ilya Pavlov: A man rumored to be planning to return to Ussura to undertake the Seeker's Test from Matushka. (S2 m)
Aldona: I's younger sister. A merchant kidnapped by pirates while sailing from Feniksowo to Porto Spatia. (S2 m) I finds her ring and her shoes in Nadzieja Dubicki's manor. (S6B m)
Jacek: A young man aligned with the Czerwony faction encountered at the Quartered Raven. While passing around a copy of the Commonwealth Crier, he and his fellow Reds discuss the human trafficking situation (reported in the Crier) and rumors of drowned bodies found in local parks (not adequately reported at all). He has a hostile opinion of Ussurans, probably colored by experience with the local Ussuran criminal syndicate. (S3A)
Lew Budky: A man aligned with the Biały faction encountered at the Quartered Raven. While passing around a copy of the Budorigum Gazette, he and his fellow Whites discuss Czerwony thugs. He notes B's mention of Klaudja and Jacek's mention of drowned bodies. He notices K trailing him after he leaves the tavern and leads him into an ambush behind the Budorigum Gazette Building. Kaya identifies him to A and adds that he posed as a Red rioter during the fake Market Square Riot. (S3A) He is a member of the Duelist's Guild and knows the Szybowanie Style. He identifies himself as Klaudja's cousin and defends her reputation at swordpoint, challenging K to a duel. He is a member of a pre-Golden Liberty minor noble house. (S3B) Someone leaves a message for him at the Biały message drop point. (S4 m) He is a guest at Nadzieja Dubicki's party and discusses Dueling Maneuvers with B. Klaudja identifies him as his brother and has him introduce her to B and K. (S6A) Nadzieja greets Klaudja and him like old friends. He identifies B to Klaudja as the witness of his duel. He accompanies B on his search for I's "servant", initially needling B about prowling after people in alleys. He fishes for information about B's and K's martial backgrounds while discussing dueling with B. He hostily confronts A at the carriage and lets slip that he was present at the riot. He eases up on A after A uses his Virtue, Friendly, to temporarily win him over. When B and A appear to be about to brawl over who is I's favorite, he retreats, letting slip that he has something important to do later that night. (S6B)
Simon: An agent of the Kreuzritter. He left a coded note at the Quartered Raven sometime within the last year, which B discovers. He may have been tracking Imelda Mundt. (S3A m) He left a second note in an oak tree on the grounds of the Dubicki Estate, which K discovers. (S6B m)
Kaya: A jenny encountered at the Quartered Raven who recognizes A and K from the Market Square Riot and offers A her services...as an informant. She provides information about Lew Budky and the Budorigum Gazette. (S3A)
Jadvyga Jasaitytė: The only known agent of the Kreuzritter permanently stationed in Sarmatia. She lives in the swamps near Saulės Mūšis. (S3A m) (See N2 75)
Antoni Kaluza: The owner of the Budorigum Gazette and a diehard member of the Biały faction. (S3A m)
Sasha: A person mentioned by Kaya as a source of her information about Antoni Kaluza. From context, a fellow jenny whose services he engages. (S3A m)
Radoslawa Jelen: A reporter for the Budorigum Gazette and a solid supporter of the Czerwony faction. (S3A m) A lands an interview with her after the opera. (S4)
Nadzieja Dubicki: A prominent merchant identified by Kolya as being known to deal in shady things. Dubekya Czerny also identifies her as being involved in moving "difficult" objects. She invites I, K, and B up to her box at the opera. She delicately probes K to find out if I is his property. She also attempts to feel out I for interest in becoming a jenny. She invites I and her entourage to her estate. (S4) The Brute Squads hired by Imelda Mundt to kidnap G had instructions to deliver him to her. (S5 m) At her party, she resumes her subtle attempts to seduce I with the advantages of obtaining a patron and the glamorous lifestyle of becoming a Courtesan. She senses something vaguely amiss and signals to one of her armed servants, but is foiled by I's use of Fascinate to delay the servant while B distracts her by animatedly engaging Lew Budky in conversation about dueling. (S6A) She notices that I's "servant" is missing and snidely makes a dig at K for fetching food himself. She greets Lew Budky and Klaudja like old friends. B allays her suspicions about the missing servant by offering to go look for him. I finds her sister Aldona's ring and shoes in her manor, direct evidence of her complicity in her sister's disappearance. (S6B)
Rog Ostrowski: A prominent merchant identified by Kolya as being known to deal in shady things. (S4 m)
Gustav: One of Nadzieja Dubicki's guards. He is amused by B's attempts to flirt with him. When I unexpectedly hugs his employer he pulls her off unceremoniously. (S4)
Duelist guard: One of Nadzieja Dubicki's guards. He wears a Duelist pin. (S4)
Jan: A raggedy boy from the poorest part of Budorigum employed by Volker Kurt Schmid to deliver a message to G. He identifies his mother as Ludymila and implies his father, an unnamed Ussuran, is deceased. G offers him a coin to escort him to Volker at Tomak's Boarding House. B gives his some bread and sends him home with a coin and the suggestion that he might be asked to serve as a messenger again. (S5)
Tomak: The proprietor of Tomak's Boarding House. (S5)
Ludymila: Jan's mother. She lives and works at a tall wharfside establishment in the poorest part of Budorigum and has red hair "most of the time" implying she may be an impoverished jenny. (S5 m)
Miron Slowka: A reputable silversmith in Budorigum from whom B, I, and K purchase a silver nightingale pin. (S6A)
The Ussuran trade delegation: A group of educated upper-class Ussurans attending Nadzieja Dubicki's party. B avoids them lest they blow his cover as I's somewhat dim arm candy. (S6A)
Dasha: Nadzieja Dubicki's cook. This hardworking woman is too busy to provide G with useful gossip. (S6B)
The steward: A man with an impressive keyring and a distinctive white streak through his carrot-red hair. He serves as Nadzieja Dubicki's steward, but is also a spy for a rival merchant. He is astounded and annoyed that G discovers a secret basement room in her manor that he did not know of. He provides I with a ledger documenting clothing and jewelry taken from trafficked people and identifies a set of keys as likely belonging to a warehouse. When I and G discuss murder and arson, he flees to avoid complicity. B spots him fleeing the party with loot stuffed under his coat. (S6B)