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NPC Compendium

Main Antagonists

  • Rath Modar / Greivar Staffshard

  • Role: Primary antagonist; duplicitous scholar-turned-Red-Wizard.

  • Location: Waterdeep (fugitive) / operating network across Sword Coast and High Forest.

  • Known motives: Acquire artifacts (Seeing Gem, Stone of Golorr, Lost Tome of Zar’thal), bypass magical wards, increase arcane power possibly toward godlike aims.

  • Connections: Puppeteered local nobles and criminals; former mentor to Torji under alias Greivar.

  • Hooks: Identity secrets, methods for bypassing Waterdeep wards, ultimate goal and allies.

  • Buzarach

  • Role: Rath Modar’s demon lieutenant; six-armed, snake-bodied fiend.

  • Location: Summoned as enforcer within Waterdeep sewers and warehouses.

  • Known motives: Serve Modar’s commands; fatal aggressor toward party and city guards.

  • Unique features: Six arms; aversion or hesitation around Arranis’s bow; resistant to certain wards.

  • Hooks: Demonic origin, summoning rune signature, whether she reports to a higher fiend.

  • Sarya Dlardrageth

  • Role: Ancient half-sun-elf half-fiend sorceress from Arranis’s backstory.

  • Location: Escaped imprisonment; threat to the High Forest and Eaerlann.

  • Known motives: Vengeance and destruction of her ancient foes; long-term antagonist whose return catalyzed the High Forest battle.

  • Connections: Allied with hooded wizard during incursion; appears in historical threads tied to current artifact thefts.

  • Hooks: Current whereabouts, whether her return ties to Rath Modar’s plans.

Rath Modar’s Agents and Henchmen

  • Captured Assassins (warehouse/sewers cells)

  • Role: Hired killers used against the party; sources of local intelligence.

  • Location: Operatives in Waterdeep criminal underworld.

  • Unique features: Professional, coordinated, worked with Captain Drask and local crews.

  • Hooks: Interrogation can reveal procurement routes, patron list, and contact methods.

  • Doppelganger Impostor (posed as Nindil Jalbuck)

  • Role: Infiltrator placed among city elites; unmasked by the Seeing Gem.

  • Location: Posing within Waterdeep’s political circles.

  • Known motives: Spy and sow discord; likely sent to enable Ward compromise.

  • Unique features: Shapechanger with mocking cruelty; likely reports to Rath or his proxies.

  • Hooks: Interrogation may expose infiltration network and replacement targets.

  • Hobgoblin Band and Human Leads

  • Role: Forest ambushers attacking the party near Tall Trees; tied to wider force in the High Forest.

  • Location: High Forest approaches to Tall Trees and Nordahaeril.

  • Known motives: Harass, capture, and report on party movements—possibly targeting Adran specifically.

  • Unique features: Human fighter and human mage leading non-goblinoid forces; organized hits suggest sponsorship.

  • Hooks: Captured leader and loot may reveal employer sigils, supply lines, or a staging area.

  • Quasit Watchers

  • Role: Small demonic scouts assigned to guard Torji in Rath Modar’s custody.

  • Location: Modar’s temporary holding sites (sewers, warehouses).

  • Known motives: Deny escape, harass prisoners, report to Modar’s summoning network.

  • Hooks: Summoning pattern and bindings could lead to Modar’s summoning loci.

City Allies and Officials

  • Khelben “Blackstaff” Arunsun

  • Role: Major arcane ally; ward architect and active field commander.

  • Location: Blackstaff Tower and City of Waterdeep.

  • Known motives: Protect Waterdeep, maintain and repair arcane defenses, counter Rath Modar.

  • Unique features: Powerful gating and warding magic; personally intervened against Rath’s incursions.

  • Hooks: Source for spells, artifacts access, and political backing; knows limits of the Wards.

  • Piergeiron Paladinson

  • Role: Civic leader and martial champion of Waterdeep.

  • Location: Castle Ward and command center.

  • Known motives: Defend the city and enforce law; assemble strike forces.

  • Hooks: High‑level political influence and military resources.

  • Lord Byronae Trilluach

  • Role: Font of Knowledge ally and coordinator with Lords; nearly killed during encounters.

  • Location: Font of Knowledge / Castle Ward.

  • Known motives: Protect the city’s knowledge and artifacts; lead investigations into Ward compromise.

  • Hooks: Access to Font archives, testimony at hearings, and liaison to Savant Sandrew.

  • Captain Rulathon

  • Role: City Captain and field commander in raids against Rath’s forces.

  • Location: Watch/City Guard operations.

  • Known motives: Arrest conspirators and secure the city.

  • Hooks: Tactical support, arrests, and prisoner custody.

  • Savant Sandrew

  • Role: Font of Knowledge archivist and researcher.

  • Location: Great Library / Font of Knowledge.

  • Known motives: Trace artifact provenance (Stone of Golorr, Lost Tome of Zar’thal) and provide historical leads.

  • Hooks: Archive searches, trial records, Waterdeep trial transcripts, and research assignments.

  • Watchman Dashhir

  • Role: Gar’rick’s cousin; Watch member wounded in warehouse fight and honored.

  • Location: City Watch.

  • Known motives: Protect the city and assist allies; personal tie to Gar’rick.

  • Hooks: Local Watch intel, potential future assistance.

Forest Allies and Backstory Figures

  • Adran Dalanthan

  • Role: Arranis’s father; scholar of Eaerlann and advisor to Caerilcarn.

  • Location: Nordahaeril and Tall Trees.

  • Known motives: Recover stolen artifacts (Stone of Golorr), preserve elven history, protect his family and homeland.

  • Hooks: Deep knowledge of Eaerlann, portal lore, possible target of enemy forces.

  • Hierophant of the High Forest

  • Role: Spiritual leader and coordinator of forest defenses (historical).

  • Location: High Forest and Fey-linked sites.

  • Known motives: Defend the forest from demonic incursions and corruption.

  • Hooks: Rituals to detect/cleanse corruption, contacts with treants and fey guardians.

  • Morgwais and Yrind Morninglight

  • Role: Leaders in the historical defense against Sarya; respected military figures in elven lore.

  • Location: High Forest history and Tall Trees council memory.

  • Known motives: Drive back demonic returns and hold the line for elven lands.

  • Hooks: Legends, battle tactics, relic locations, and historical testimony.

  • Blink Dog Guardian

  • Role: Forest guardian that joined the party; scout and fey ally.

  • Location: High Forest near Tall Trees.

  • Known motives: Protect the forest and its allies; counter incursions and report anomalies.

  • Hooks: Local guidance, fast teleportation for reconnaissance, possible link to Hierophant.

Lesser Contacts, Background NPCs, and Leads

  • Captain Drask

  • Role: Dock captain implicated in the conspiracy and smuggling network.

  • Location: Dock Ward operations and warehouse contacts.

  • Known motives: Profit and collusion with Rath’s local proxies.

  • Hooks: Shipping manifests, smuggling routes, and criminal associates.

  • Juror Thrane

  • Role: Corrupt juror involved in the plot to sell the Seeing Gem.

  • Location: Judicial circles in Waterdeep.

  • Known motives: Greed and influence; provided legal cover or insider access.

  • Hooks: Legal manipulations, contacts within courts, and testimony value.

  • Lord Thann

  • Role: Noble conspirator involved in the sale; physically compromised during the sting.

  • Location: Noble circles; warehouse purchaser cohort.

  • Known motives: Black-market dealings and artifact trade.

  • Hooks: Estate liquidation records, ledger trails, and patron networks.

  • Nell

  • Role: Gar’rick’s dockside mentor and surrogate father.

  • Location: Dock Ward and Mistshore.

  • Known motives: Protect Gar’rick’s family; provide mundane support and local knowledge.

  • Hooks: Dock rumors, fisherman networks, and safe-harbor leads.

  • Torji’s Mentors (Jorathin Reese; Greivar alias)

  • Role: Jorathin Reese — original mentor in Evereska; Greivar Staffshard — reclusive scholar who later revealed as Rath Modar.

  • Location: Evereska; Iriaebor; Waterdeep connections.

  • Known motives: Jorathin pursued scholarship and guardianship; Greivar used mentorship to manipulate Torji into serving Rath’s plans.

  • Hooks: Letters, correspondence, and Candlekeep/Darkhold leads tied to Lost Tome of Zar’thal.

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