Faction Index

This page groups NPCs by formal faction, suspected faction, or recurring association. Some entries are loose networks rather than official organizations.

Formal Factions

• Veiled Quill
  • Artus Cimber — Xibalba contact
  • Bodius Tea — may owe them favors through the family-destruction/artifact thread
• Sewer Tinkerer’s Society
  • Balm Bitdoom — leader / debt-holder
• The Symposium
  • Confirmed hidden faction; Balm Bitdoom is a confirmed member, but his NPC listing stays nested under the Sewer Tinkerer’s Society because he heads that group
  • Mr. Stephens — Throbbin’s butler; wore the matching algiz-rune necklace
• Red Wizards
  • No named local agent confirmed yet
• Legendary Chult Expedition
  • Anthe Grackles, Jacque LeFleur, Mikshail Valakovich, and Cheezy Sloth
• Zantaram
  • No named member confirmed yet
• Aldani
  • No living Aldani encountered yet
  • Raif Bright-fin — wants to meet them in the Basin
  • Shago — barred from Aldani-cursed temple spaces because of his Chwinga blessing

Night Song / Old Tin Top’s

Associated with Old Tin Top’s Juke Joint and Casino and the 284th Midsommer Night’s Song.

• Old Tin Top — host / proprietor
• Isilrod Gurglestrom — winner; inducted into the Midsommer Night’s Song
• Vesper Ralk — deceased finalist; witness to the Throbbin frame job
• Raif Bright-fin — finalist; Triton lightning bard
• Eoin Cooper — deceased finalist; previous winner; Symposium suspect
• Gus Galloway — competitor; Symposium suspect
• Summer “Hardcore” Mooneyham — competitor; joined the Shadowfang route
• Isolde the Moth — pale half-elf with a bone flute
• Jacques LaFleur — prior competitor / LaFleur lead
• Throbbin Mistwillow — former bard ally; tied to Vesper and the Symposium murder thread
• Darrius Biskarr — carried a blank Night Song invitation
• Volothamp Geddarm — knew the invitation lore

Symposium Connections

Confirmed hidden faction tied to the Throbbin murder and the party’s frame job. See The Symposium.

• Throbbin Mistwillow — killed by an algiz-rune arrow “of the Symposium”
• Vesper Ralk — deceased witness; believed the party was framed
• Eoin Cooper — deceased suspect; flinched when the party baited “Symposium”
• Gus Galloway — flinched when the party baited “Symposium”
• Balm Bitdoom — confirmed member; said “the Symposium is always watching”
• Shago — served an unknown patron connected to the Night Song / Basin thread
• Mr. Stephens — Throbbin’s butler; wore a matching algiz-rune marking necklace

Biskarr Network

Centered on Biskarr Exotic Stock and Racing Prospects, animal juicing, and the purple-substance thread.

• Rhalzar Biskarr — racer / brother
• Bast Biskarr — brother
• Darrius Biskarr — brother
• Velmera Biskarr — lab operator / purple-substance source
• Futch — compound security / right-hand man
• Elsa Toth — Lazlo’s daughter; formerly involved with the Biskarrs

Xibalba Power Players

Merchant princes, arena operators, local fixers, and city-facing contacts in Port Xibalba.

• Jabari Muktow — merchant prince
• Oliver Watto — arena operator; planning to raid Jabari
• LeGrand — Watto-connected fighter / contact
• Grandfather Zitembe — merchant prince / holy man
• Xintarum — merchant prince marked for deposition
• Sebulba — dinosaur race operator / bookie
• Cassidy — merchant
• Molly — Thundering Lizard proprietor
• Lazlo Toth — purple-heartwood contact / Elsa’s father

Milk Maiden’s Voyage / Meadery

Party-owned ship and business operation in Xibalba.

• Syndra Sylvane — runs the meadery while the party is away
• Dr. Jack Aubrey — mead maker; also pursuing Mina Aubrey’s vampire cure
• Flea — tap runner
• Captain Ortimay Swift — former Brazen Pegasus captain
• Volothamp Geddarm — Xibalban Courier / ship-adjacent informant

Jungle Guides / Shago Thread

People tied to the Temple of Cayochan, Mosquito, Shago, Lilith, and the idol/Basin lead.

• Lilith — spared guide / admitted conspirator
• Shago — dead antagonist; served an unknown patron
• Mosquito — dead guide; Flea’s father
• Flea — Mosquito’s son
• Aremag — enormous turtle tied to the Bouty map lead
• Captain Robin — missing captain tied to Aremag’s lair
• Ras Nsi — undead-horde controller; Death Curse / Kilburg Card Deck target

Bathhouse / Purple Heartwood

Loose Xibalba bathhouse cluster.

• Viggo — bathhouse proprietor
• Tubs — furnace man / fire attendant
• Lazlo Toth — supplied suspicious purple heartwood

Party Companions and Unaffiliated Contacts

• Moghammer — Faf’s riding toad / party companion
• Clarky — green salamander companion from the Baldur’s Gate escape
• Captain Robin — missing historical lead
• Captain Ortimay Swift — ship captain / Raif contact
• Aremag — enormous turtle / map lead
• Siegfried — dead young red dragon formerly lairing in Wyrmheart Mine

Needs Sorting

• Isolde the Moth may need a stronger association after the party follows up with her.
• The Night Song may deserve its own faction/organization note if induction proves mechanically or politically important.

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