This is a list of notable NPCs the party has met during their adventure. They are listed in alphabetical order.

Stormbreaker Crew

Hilda Skyhelm

Dwarf, she/her

Hilda was a sailor from a shipping company who had long dreamed of buying her own ship and setting out on her own. She can be a bit bullheaded, but has an overall cheerful disposition that made her a fast friend. She is an avid collector of old artifacts, and loves showing off whatever new trinket she stumbles across. In her travels she had met each of the PCs and developed a friendship with each of them prior to the beginning of the campaign.

She sent a letter to each of them containing a skyship ticket from Geprusar to Ashborne asking them to meet her in the nearby village of Jorren’s Rest. She had found a map leading to a mythical skyship, the Harbinger, and needed a crew to fill it. After briefly losing the map and the required gemstone to operate it, the party managed to recover it and get the long wrecked ship running once again, renaming it Stormbreaker.

Hilda is now the acting captain of the Stormbreaker and acts as the party’s patron.

NOVA

AI, they/them

The Nautical Operations and Vehicle Administrator (N.O.V.A.) is the AI interface to the skyship Stormbreaker. NOVA oversees all on-ship activities and can control aspects of the ship in the absence of a crew member, allowing the ship to operate even with an incomplete crew. They act as a caretaker for the crew, and can provide available information from any location on board the ship.

They have no memory prior to their installation in the ship and their first interaction with the party. They were not the original intelligence that operated the ship when it was the mythical Harbinger. They have stated that there is minimal information available about the prior history of the ship itself.

Kobold Krew

Kobolds

Eight kobolds lived in the caves adjacent to the Harbinger crash site. A friendly witch, their (“Auntie Lav”), took care of them until her passing, at which point they began robbing people on the main road to gather food for survival. Quentin introduced the party to the kobolds who after some initial hesitance became fast friends.

After learning that Hazel was a “sister” to Lavender, they quickly accepted her as their new “Auntie”.

A group of very resourceful engineers using natural materials to build brilliant and convoluted traps, they now serve as crew members of the Stormbreaker and under Hilda’s tutelage are learning to work with more modern materials.

Names: Boomspear, Skunkdress, Logsmush, Pitspike, Decoy, Burnynet, Hornetpot, Claptrap

Hermann Voltz

Human, he/him

The chief engineer on the ship, he leads its restoration. Deeply interested in Celestial technology and building weapons to combat the Titans, he is constantly working.

He was brought out of hiding in Port Revelry by the party to work on the ship, drawn by the prospect of working first hand on lost war era technology. He and three of his colleagues, including Hilda’s mentor, Knylbec, worked together to build a cannon that gravely wounded the Titan Jadwiga during it’s last attack on Port Revelry. They were pursued by the authorities for building illegal technology, and his three comrades were arrested while Hermann managed to escape and slip into hiding. He worked with the local criminal syndicates in exchange for keeping him hidden away and out of sight of the government forces who sought to imprison him. Now finally free from the criminal groups that exploited him, he is free to pursue his personal research in earnest.

William Adnet

Human, he/him

Teenage stepson of Hermann. His biological father died at some point around the Titan attack on Port Revelry. Although he assists Hermann in some of his tasks, he seems disinterested in pursuing a life in artificing, preferring painting and writing.

During Hermann and his period in hiding, he acted as the “face” of the pair, meeting up with the individuals who sought Hermann’s artificing services. He seems to carry some amount of resentment towards his stepfather.

Moldra Valnys

Silver Dragonborn, she/her

Cargo manager and accountant for the Stormbreaker. She is quiet and reserved and speaks little of herself, seemingly always focused on the task at hand.

Octavian Rockforth

Human, he/him

Sales manager for the Stormbreaker’s shipping business. Boisterous and a tad pompous, he is well aquainted with merchants in settlements all over the continent, seemingly always having an “in” somewhere. Always well dressed and quick with a smile, his way with words secured quick business in the Stormbreaker’s early days.

Urgan

Orc, he/him

The ship’s resident blacksmith, he works closely with the ships engineering teams molding pieces and parts to replace broken ones around the crashed ship. A jack-of-all-trades, he also makes fine weapons and armor on request.

Cronus Thunderguard

Goliath, he/him

Deckhand handling odd jobs around the ship. Loud and opinionated, he values strength above all else, and although he does not go looking for fights, he never turns down a good scrap.

Skwawk

Kenku, he/him

Deckhand handling odd jobs around the ship. Quiet and dependable, he gets his work done with no words besides the occasional “caw”. Sticks close to Cronus most of the time, who protects him like an elder brother.

Kuzzim Duskhorn

Dwarf, he/him

Deckhand handling odd jobs around the ship. Grumpy and stubborn, but a dependable laborer when he recognizes “things need doin’”. Currently acting as the ship’s cook. He is very bad at it.

Lenny Baldtree

Human, he/him

Deckhand handling odd jobs around the ship. A jokester and carouser, he previously worked as a deckhand on the Mercurial with Hilda until he made a snide comment about the captain’s boots at which point he was thrown overboard.

Alessandra Santos

Tiefling, she/her

Acting chaplain of the Stormbreaker. She cleared out one of the unused rooms within the ship and uses it as a small chapel. She became quickly beloved among the crew for her calming disposition and willingness to provide support and aid, as well as teach.

Alessandra was recruited by the party during their time in Port Revelry where a local crime syndicate called The Abandoned recognized she was interfering with their protection racket. The party was recruited to “remove her” and after helping her tie up some loose ends, managed to convince her to join their crew and go on a pilgrimage.

Barbara Rosmund

Human, she/her

Personal assitant to Tamiel Lazarus, owner of the Dawnbringer Canyon theme park, where the party peacefully relocated a horde of giants that had taken over the canyon. After the events at the Lazarus home (where the party was being honored) where Hazel lost control of the Titan Gigas and attacked a justicar, Barbara was selected as a third party to monitor Hazel and ensure that she could keep the power under control. If not, she would be forced to inform the proper authorities.

Barbara resides on the Stormbreaker as a guest until further notice.

Luisa Nizana

Minotaur, she/her

Luisa is a druid from the village of Everwood Haven who along with an artificer from the Holy City of Caius named Graham Newt, discovered an alternative means of energy transference using root fibers local to the jungle surrounding the village. Following the discovery and the publishing of Graham’s research paper, she began to hear the call from the jungle plants that led her to an ancient temple of Thena where she was swallowed by a corrupted plant and replaced with a doppelganger that had all of her memories. After the party discovered the impostor while trying to recruit Luisa’s help, they set off for the temple and freed her from the plant, inadvertently destroying the plant system that had sealed away an army of Gnolls that had long been trapped in the jungle. The Gnoll army descended on Luisa’s village, but with the Stormbreaker crew’s help, the whole village managed to escape to safety.

As thanks for saving her village, Luisa has joined the crew and is helping Hermann to update the ship’s wiring, allowing it to more efficiently and effectively distribute power throughout the ship.

Others of Note

Lavender Whitmore

Human, she/her, deceased

The witch matriarch of the kobold clan living among the old Harbinger ruins who passed away a few months prior to the party’s arrival at the crash site. Little is known about who she was, but she lived within the ship prior to the party’s arrival. Amongst her belongings was an old letter to her from a friend coming to visit that indicated she was once the Coven Mother for an unknown witch’s coven.

Tobias Armin

Human, he/him

The previous constable of Jorren’s Rest who was discovered by the party to have stolen Hilda’s map and gemstone after overhearing that they were needed to fly an ancient lost skyship. He had long been accumulating funds by accepting bribes and skimming from taxes in order to fund his way out of the town and onto a skyship. He is a survivor of the titan attack on the town of Norrholm, where his parent died. He relocated to Jorren’s Rest afterwards, but held on to the paranoia for the ever looming threat of a titan attack - convinced that the only way to avoid one was to be constantly on the move. To cover his tracks he regularly used the local hunters who had previously been convicted of theivery as a scapegoat.

When he moved to take the skyship for himself, he created a diversion in the town by luring wolves to cause disarray. However, upon arriving at the skyship crash site, the kobold residents caught him by surprise and held him captive. The party decided to turn him in to the Justicars in Ashborne once the ship got flying. In the meantime, the party requested the assistance of the same hunters who he had tormented during his time as Constable to help repair the ship. In exchange for their help, they were allowed a brief period of time by some party members to punish the man brutally for his wrongdoing. Allowing this to occur created a great deal of discourse betwen certain members of the party.

Tobias is currently being held in the Stormbreaker brig and is serving as one of the ship’s cooks for good behavior.

Quentin Quagmire

Firbolg, he/him

A mysterious traveling merchant who primarily serves non-traditional communities, such as the kobold residents outside of Jorren’s Rest and their witch matriarch Lavender. The party met him after his squirrel companion, Rudy, got their attention and led them to Quentin trapped in an old hunter’s bear trap. As thanks for rescuing him, he guided the party through the woods to the Harbinger crash site and introduced them to the kobold residents.

The following day he bid the party farewell, with a glint in his eye that indicated he was confident they would all someday meet again.

Bolan Dawnseeker

Dwarf, he/him

A scientist in Dawnbringer Canyon, researching the remains of the Titan Gigas. Hilda blackmailed him into allowing her to take a leg bone from the remains to use to upgrade the Stormbreaker. As the party worked to relocate the giants that had moved into the canyon, they slowly discovered that much of the current problems were due to Bolan’s experiments on the Titan’s core - bringing the giants to this location and causing them to lose control.

After Hazel was possessed by Gigas, she saw visions of Bolan’s past: that he was rejected by Gigas when he came into contact with the core, and that he was responsible for the murder of Hilda’s brother Maxim. Jealous of his ability, and desiring a high position in the Arcanus he poisoned Maxim with the incomplete Potion of Titan Strength that he had been developing, causing him to become addicted and eventually overdose.

Knowing that the titan resided within Hazel, and knowing that the party was aware of his past, he proposed a deal to use his influence to keep Hazel from being jailed and executed in exchange for the party’s silence.