Important NPCs

The key non-player characters (NPCs) that our intrepid player characters interact with.

Bersi Kalsson

Vali Steinssen’s scoutmaster. Deeply loyal, loves card and dice games, and keeps his roguish skills up with puzzles and tests. Speaks to his scouts Keilic, a dialect of Thieves Cant.

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Gættr Mordson

Vali Steinssen’s second in command. Hot-headed, hard, but tactical. His wife isn’t a major NPC, but is good friends and part of the entourage of Signy Kolensko.

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Graklak

Spiritual/military leader of Zurk, an underground village of orcs tucked in the Snowlow mountains. He has a long memory of cruel and racist humans, but his people has also been beset by hunters as of late, looking to open portals for eldritch horrors. He and his orc warriors fight with Vali Steinssen, but he’ll need guarantees that if the humans succeed in winning the throne and the Great Old One threat is either defeated or never materializes, that his people will not be treated as monsters and pariahs, but as citizens of Hættrland.

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Lorthr

An 800-year old drow swashbuckler rogue/horizon walker ranger. As a swashbuckler he ferried the gods on his ship to fight the Great Old Ones, then after The Restoration became a horizon walker to keep guard against the old ones. His two sons help him, but he’s so old he’s always looking to pass on what he knows.

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Nadira

Belnirith’s Valkyrie guide. The only dark-skinned Valkyrie, a human warrior who was rewarded by Odin for fighting by his side during The Horrors.

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Ofrik

Lead warrior of a tribe of frost giants from the mountains around Vestrí Keep. His soul was trapped in a jar by the otherworldly forces of the Great Old Ones until Asgarday∂a freed it. He and four frost giant warriors fight with Vali Steinssen, not out of loyalty to him, but because they know that he will fight the otherworldly evil that trapped him.

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Osk

A mysterious, powerful sorceress and diviner. Normally a hermit who lives at the outskirts of Vestrí Keep, she can be convinced to help good causes and people. She has been touched by visions that would drive most humans insane, but still keeps her humanity.

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Radhani Vyczenko

A Zoryi merchant from the Yuzhnyak region, who now now resides in Blüstrom. He is chaotic good to his core: promotes the welfare of common people, laws be damed; distrusts wealth and power; loyal to his family and friends, to Zorya, and to his people.

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## Signy Kolensko Signy is the wife of [Vali Steinssen](#vali) and a leader of the women in Vestri Keep. She is strong and kind. Although she left the Yuzhnyak region of Hættrland, she still has deep sympathy for the people under the thumb of the Yagas, especially the Zoryi.

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## Vali Steinssen The Hersir of Vestri Keep. Lawful and good to his core. Beloved by his men and respected by the local farmers for keeping them safe and keeping trade routes open. Married to [Signy Kolensko](#signy). He has no interest in power or politics, he would rather protect people and ensure they have the chance to live a rewarding life. Unfortunately, that attitude makes him a threat to those who fear his growing reputation...

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Yuki

Yuki is a green hag, almost 800 years old. She’s not malevolent and has no interest in controlling or corrupting people; she’s just intensely selfish and unconcerned with anyone or anything other than herself and those few that she lets into her inner circle. She distrusts humans, males especially, and since her coven was killed she has been intensely lonely.

In her 800 years she has built up a massive level of magic power. She is a skilled alchemist who can make potions from nearly any spell; a powerful trickery cleric (dark fey patron) and even more powerful divination wizard.

She has a snowy owlbear familiar, snjárbita.

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