Non-Player Characters in the Duke Gabba Campaign

Live Ones

Xeno "Mumbles"
Count Vetubræ's tutor from Laz and the tutor of his children. None were particularly dilligent students. Mubles is from Laz and he also tutored Nud the troll child. Nud was a much better student, for he liked reading over waiting around. Xeno is forbidden from touching guns or gunpowder, for he blew up part of the house before. He now lives with Marcus near in the Barony of Lac May.

Tink Tink
Dwarven explorer and acquisitions man. Helped long ago in quests by Count Vetubræ and many times since. The count even named his first son after Tink Tink. Tink Tink still goes on expeditions occassionally and likes to sneak in and visit Count Vetubræ often. Training another dwarf named Mechanix to take his place.

Count Flavius Herrenius
Friend of Count Vetubræ for both were Captains in the Winged Foot Legion long ago. Now Count Herrenius is the Grand Admiral of the Mirror Fleet. He sent his second son to squire with Count Vetubræ and had Vetubræ's second son as squire. Neither family had female children and the two families cannot join through marriage. His wife was killed by a demonic spirit during the Night of a Thousand Screams two decades ago.

Baron Claudius Vetubræ: Played by Jeff Freymuller until his wife had a baby and he started getting a real life?!?
Second son of Count Vetubræ, current oldest, and Baron of the Fir Ilses. Long-time member of the Samirah Martial School of Babel and spent three years at their main school on the Wilh Coast. As a youth, Claudius stayed with the Herrenius family and practiced fighting with Flavius the Younger. Never given a military command, because he lacks the authoritarian leadership style, preffering cooperation and consensus. While in Babel, he spends much time cruising women and talking with his best friend, Iphegina Blasio.

General Mantana
Orc General who actually led the Imperial Endless Sea Fleet, except in a couple situations. Organized and personally led the first twenty-three expeditions (up to the Summer Palace attack.) General Mantana personally killed the orc Emperor. Mantana and the cabal of the other orc Generals, executed Supreme Warlord Antalaha. He then married the orc Empress, fathered the child who is the new orc Emperor, and became the Regent of the (child) Emperor. He does not have a right arm; it was burned off by the sorcery of Mambata Drivadi, tusk rider leader of the Reborn Siban Empire. The Empress had Mantana recovered from the other dimension he was sent to. General Mantana now leads the Bodyguard of the (orc) Emperor.

Merchant Prince Lauro Blasio: Played by Eduardo Horvath until retirement
Third son of Blasio the Merchant-Prince, Lauro is a noted ship captain. Adept sorcerer in the Col-Wan sorcery sect. Lived in Qiryat for three years learing the ways of the orcs and a little orcish sorcery. Known for paying high sums for captured dwarven firearms and any orc copies. He carefully plays the purchasing game to prevent creating a demand for the weapons, instead buying the ones captured anyway. He has been on several voyages across the Endless Sea on both human and orc ships, and knows the sea route from Orc Port to Kos. He has a ghoul familiar, named Yippe.

Emperor Mambata Drivadi
Tusk Rider Emperor of the Reborn Siban Empire. Former Chancellor of the Siba University System, nominal leader of the (old) Siban Empire. Imprisoned in the dungeons of Babel for 300 years with the rest of the leaders of the Siban Empire who surrendered to the Empire of Osir, and who were all later double-crossed by the Imperial Senate. Vengence was satisfied when the orc invasion reached Babel and they released all political prisoners, including the tusk riders. The tusk riders quickly took over Babel, then Siba, then the rest of the human empire. Vic Vega was imprisoned with these tusk riders and became a close personal friend of Mambata.

Mr. Aramba Heraklia
Tusk rider and member of the Cabal of Five Magi, magi who lived in the remote mountains of Southern Siba. When the tusk riders took over, Aramba (and many others) were invited to become important members of the Reborn Siban Empire. Aramba joined and became an associate of the Demolition Man. Aramba was worried that this new job would get him killed and he arranged with Vic to get transferred to the personal staff of Mambata. He is therefore indebted to Vic.

Mr. Mes Ghillaho
Tusk Rider "Ghost Buster" and Minister of Information. He works with the Zlato cult in preventing the spread of otherworld activity in the Reborn Siban Empire. He arranged with Doctor Cornelius to get the Zlato temple in Babel be reinhabited and for Zlato to become a secondary city god. Mes also works with the various public information agencies in Babel and across the empire to get carefully crafted messages to the citizens of the empire.

Marcellos Santos
Dark Troll crimminal living in Ashqelon. He has many talented people working for him, including The Wolf, Vincent, and Dieter. He was imprisoned for fencing gems, demonology items, and cult-restricted magic items three years ago. He was freed by the orcs when a general amnesty was declared for political prisoners. Friends of his were able to get him reclassified and released.

Octavius Pila
Played by Ken Mckinney in the Gil'adi Campaign Child of one of two noble families in Gil'adi. Father was the old High Priest of Nisava in Gil'adi and who remarried the woman who became the mother of Octavius and had already had Captain Müller from another marriage. Captain Müller, Septanus, Primus, and all his other siblings are all half-brothers and sisters. First brother, Primus, is family head and High Priest of Nisava in Gil'adi. Octavius was set up to become the Bishop of Kiklag, but became the Curate of the Bracers by the action of his brother, Septamus. Octavius has been fairly astute in his dealings with the Agents of the Bracers and in positioning them as the best of the best within Nisava.

Dead Ones

[in order of passing] NPC unless otherwises noted

Zargü: Played by Eduardo Horvath about three times until death
Zargü was the mountain troll gladiator given as a gift from Merchant Prince Blasio. He was found to be generally uncontrollable, but distinguished himself by destroying the orc hero, General Nossibe [by exploding his acid blood all over the General.]

Gaius the Younger "Tink-Tink" Vetubræ
Late first son of the count and named after one of the count's dwarven brotheren. Not very ambitious, perfectly content with currect situation. Spends his time carrying out the duties of his position and his title (Master of the Imperial Chariot Corps Office, mainly Araman soldiers.) When the orc armies invaded, Gaius commanded the Imperial Chariot Corps at Fort Hazeva. Gaius escaped the destruction of the Corps when Fort Hazeva was destroyed, but was later killed by the Bloodsoaked Host of General Nossibe during the capture of Babel by the Orcs.

Flavius the Younger Herrenius
The late first son and a Captain in the Imperial Bodyguard. Friends with Claudius Vetubræ, for they grew up together and practiced arms against each other as children. Flavius the Younger has become a strong and hard man, lossing much of the innocence he once had. He has personally put down a coup attempt by two Generals. Flavius heads a cell of the Wax Brotherhood, a group of citizens against government corruption, whose main tool is sanction (assassination.) Flavius perished in the fire of the Imperial Palace when the Siba Empire resurged.

Count Gaius Vetubræ, Dwarf Brother
The late father of two of the characters. Non-politically connected noble. Willing to spend a little money keeping his younger sons out of trouble. The Count was paritucularly ambitious and that wore off on his first son. His wife died while giving birth to Marcus, the third son, and the resulting depression as never really left the Count. For a long time the Count has helped the dwarves in innumerable ways. Killed by the tusk riders when he refused to become part of the Reborn Siban Empire.

Hananave Tianaro: Played as a PC once, NPC otherwise
Orc Guide hired by Lauro Blasio in the orc city-state of Besalampy. He was then hired as a Blacktongue teacher by Antonio Gabba, the Ambassador to the orcs. During the entire time and since, he works for and worships the orc Empress. He reports to his controller once per day. As a child in the Chrysanthemum clan, Hananave physically dominated his peers and was selected for the Bodyguard of the Empress. He know little of the world outside of the orc lands, but has learned much in his travels with the party. Hananave does not fit the traditional mold of orc warriors because he has long been a member of the egalitarian Empress Bodyguard and Sorcery Sect. Hananave was killed by General Mantana for failing to competently performing his duty of following and protecting Duke Gabba.

Merchant Prince Lucius Blasio
Member of the Mirror Trade Cartel and current Merchant-Prince. Trades extensively with the Northern Barbarians and the Orcs. He used to be the second son and as a youth went on wild adventures. But an interguild conflict grew into an armed battle and older brother, the heir, weas killed. Since then Lucius has regretted leaving the path of adventure and now lives vicariously through his second son and his friends. His main income derives from the large share ownership of the Mirror Trade Cartel Fleet and insurance on the Imperial Highway. This insurance can also be interpreted as protection money, and he could be suspected of organized crime activities. Disappeared mysteriously.

Iphegina Blasio
Only daughter of Blasio the Trade, she is a nun/priestess of Regna. She has been a close friend of Claudius Vetubræ since childhood, but the two could never marry for she was promised to Regna before birth for favors granted to Lucius long ago; and Regna forbids nuns from ever marrying. Their love is platonic but strains against the boundaries of their obligations and oaths. She is fond of his assosiates for many of her sisters in Regna are not chaste nuns, and they are always trying to catch a rich noble in marriage. Disappeared mysteriously.