Sanctuary Innocents
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Even Sanctuary has its innocents - or at least people who don't appreciate the level of crime and corruption around them, and are always used more than they use.
Alciros Foin
Elf. Hired 10 bravos to search the crypts below Sanctuary to find his wife. Only he was ever seen again alive, with his skin flayed off.
Amhan Nas-yeni
Ilsigi Tradesman. A honest, ordinary man, whose son, Beruth, was murdered by Critias and Straton.
Anbarbi
Fisherman. Was kidnapped by horsemen, believed to be cultists. Escaped minus his scalp. Now he always wears a hat.
Aram
Ilsigi apprentice to Cholly the Gluemaker.
Aristarchus
Troll slave / circus display. Rescued by Wess and her northern friends from the circus. He fought in the Kingdom Wars alongside humans. He is quite intelligent and speaks common and Reichspiel fluently. Aristarchus has golden grey-flecked hair and large green eyes. He is an old troll but can still eat a horse. He works for Melilot the Scribe as a research assistant. He lives in a basement in the Northern end of Downtown. He has also published the first known work on Troll Metaphysics.
He is genial and good natured, and will usually agree with whoever is speaking to him. He likes to play practical jokes on his friends, and gently manipulate them into behaving as he wants by playing stupid and appearing to "try hard" to be human. His friends usually like him more after one of these pranks.
Atticus
Chariot driver. Races a chariot team of dappled-greys; based at Lowan Vigeles' estate.
Berge
A thin and anxious woman who would be handsome if less worried. She is a weaver and buys the rubbishy dross that are used by merchants to pack their delicate goods in. She turns the dross into cloth. She has blue eyes and they worked a charm on Walegrin who has become attracted to her.
Borak
Chariot driver. Races a chariot team of 3 chestnut geldings; based at Lowan Vigeles' estate. Favorite driver and friend of Cholly.
Crispen
Driver of a chariot team of whites; based at Lowan Vigeles' estate.
Dadisha
Elven Resident of Sanctuary. Worst known gossip but very law abiding - was probably late home to his wife once.
Darseeya
Rankene Child. Granddaughter of Mariat and sister of Keldrick. Fled Ranke with her vineyard owning family to avoid some faction.
Dweezle
A little-known shifty man of little character or morals. Said to be tall and fat, but perhaps not. Probably a contact for the Viola Supporters Association or one of the gangs.
Eevroen
Ilsigi sponger and layabout. Alcoholic husband of Masha. Fat, double-chinned, huge-paunched with rings of sagging fat around his waist, red-eyed, and clothed in ripped, dirty and stained clothing. A lazy, stupid man. Masha was married off to him when her uncles went bankrupt.
Elino
House-owner. Had one of a dozen Brandenburg bodies dumped on his doorstep.
Enoir
House guard. Once servant-master for Lastel , he then became house guard to Masha. A fat man, and slow.
Ephis
Rankene, shot twice in the leg by snipers in an ambush by the Pilf.
Gonfred
Rankene Goldsmith An honest goldsmith - no shavings, scrapings or drippings he takes from others. Moves among the 'better' end of town, attending parties held by the Prince-Governor. Was once famously cured of his hiccoughing by Strick.
Grian
Corpse-cutter and part-time gravedigger. Friend of Harran. Works in the Charnel House. Knows where to find fresh corpses. Supplies corpses to Foras's priests for anatomy instruction.
Harmy
Elven Maze-dweller. A good source of local rumour. He is partial to Ahdio's sausages.
Haron
Fisherwoman. One of the few women ever accepted by the fishermen as one of their own. She has a round, fleshy and weathered face.
Hazen
Elven Shop assistant. Furtwan's nephew and shop assistant at the Changer's establishment. Watches Cholly's wagon when the gluemaker is visiting his uncle.
Hermun
Human apprentice Goldsmith under Gonfred. Is known for his intolerance of cheese.
Hummy
Young mother and wife of a construction worker. One of the common folk, with a young daughter. The rebuilding of Sanctuary has meant work for her husband and meat on the table.
Ineedra
House wife. Wife of Cholly the Gluemaker. Much-beloved and obeyed by her large husband.
Irohunda
Elven Melon-pedlar in the Bazaar. Known to be "taken in" by any half-decent subterfuge.
Blind Jacob
Elven fruit seller in the bazaar. Although he is evidentially completely blind, his fruits are of the best, even occasionally including the famous Tuscana oranges. This is due to his multitude of contacts with the merchants in Sanctuary. Jacob's very successful sideline is blackmail, for which he maintains a virtual army of urchins who spy for him.
Jamie the Red
Norden Prince. A tall, square shouldered, Nordic barbarian, whose hair gave rise to his nickname. He maintained an apartment in the Jeweller's Quarter where his two women live (of whom he is quite jealous). He is usually ready for a brawl or a drink, depending on his mood. Although appearing initially dumb, he has some education from the Norden king, his father. He is a drinking buddy of Cappen Varra.
Jharn
Apparently vapid elven lady of leisure. She is a beautiful young woman who has her much older husband Bakarat just where she wants him. She hosts a salon full of the brightest (and handsomest) minds in Sanctuary. Frequent visitors include Cappen Varra, Chandler, Sjekso Kinzan, Taz, and Lalo. She has few female friends. She appears to be interested only in pleasure and excess. Jharn is part of House Alden.
Tragically killed by unknown assailants on 13 Meadow 806WK, just before a Belith cult was destroyed. The Festival of Arts is held in her honour annually, on the week leading up to her death.
With her resurrection into a range of artworks the following year, Jharn is again active, usually as an animated stone statue. Her beauty is perhaps harsher than when she was flesh, but no less stunning. It is said that she can possess any portrait or humanoid statue in Sanctuary.
Jimny
A scrawny Ilsigi boy taken as a slave and sought by his mother.
Joiner
Ilsigi Carpenter. He had driven a nail through his hand, and the wound had healed around it before he got around to seeing a physician. The nail is still embedded, and is now a mark of pride.
Jordis
Stonemason. Worked on the new temple of Sammael and the walls around Downwind.
Jurgen
A handy man about Sanctuary who is always looking to leave no good deed unpunished. DEAD - He died after a brief altercation with Alneri in Winter 807.
Karis
Young friend of Lalo's daughter Latilla.
Keldrick
Rankene Teenage boy, eldest (14 yrs) grandson of Mariat. Mature beyond his years due to what happened to his family in Ranke. Now the man of his family.
Kivan
Stonemason. Worked for Foras and Irik on the construction of Sanctuary's new walls around Downwind.
Klikitagh
Guard / sailor / wanderer. Companion of Jarveena. A boorish fellow with broad shoulders, large and sinewy hands, and a beard and hair of fair colour and red sunburned skin from many days at sea. Klikitagh is under an immortality curse of a thousand years and is unable to eat or sleep at the same place more than once. Enas Yorl was successful in lifting the curse, but so strong was it, Klikitagh died and rose again with exactly the same curse, but with all his previous memories gone so he could not remember the crime he had committed.
Kotilis
Cook. Partner of Shiey and actual cook at the Peres house.
Kummanni
Fisherman. Knows lots of gossip. Is arrested too frequently.
Kurd
Vivisectionist and experimental healer. An immigrant from Ranke, driven out of there by Zalbar who took offence to his use of slaves for his experiments. Kurd is about fifty; his cadaverous body shows the neglect in clothes and grooming of a man dedicated to his vocation.
Leah
Midwife, old woman.
Linza
Dwarven Barfly. Tarkle's bedpartner. She is unfortunately adorned with one eyebrow and one of her eyes sort of looks off to the side.
Lizette
Human midwife
Looza
Elven Neighbour of Masha's who would watch the midwife's child when she is away.
Maldu
Elven Drinker at Sly's Place.
Marilla
Elven golem. Created by the priests of Gusion to provoke the Archangels, she was made in the image of a young elven woman to trick the Rankene priests into interring her into the foundation of a new temple, thus causing a disruptive weakness. She nows fends for helself and is learning how to live.
Marissa
Ex-slavegirl / servant. Trusted friend of Sarah (Cade's sister). She now lives as a lady. Her freedom was bought by Cade. She has scars covering her back and thighs. She lives next door to Sarah with Targ, her mercenary bodyguard.
Masha
Ilsigi Midwife / dentist / barber whose involvement with the destruction of the Purple Mage enabled her to move from the Maze to respectability uptown. A short, wiry woman, a good midwife who resents having to pay half her fee to a doctor who sits outside the room and gives advice. She also makes false teeth and jewellery. She is now separated from her drunken husband, Eevroen.
Mebbat
Old blind man. Says he can see lost souls out on patrol in Sanctuary.
Mikali
Elven Fop. Brightly bedecked teenager who main vocation seemed to be spending his father's wealth on fine clothing. Enthusiastic patron of Hakiem's stories.
Monkel
Fisherman. Young chief of clan Setmur, an extended kinship of fishermen and sailors.
Mriga
Knife grinder. A mindless and crippled clubfooted beggar-woman with a fetish for knives.
Old Thumpfoot
Elven Street cleaner cripple. Fixture/character of the Maze, a street cleaner and trash picker and source of a good rumour. Said by Furtwan Coinpinch to have overheard everything that happened in the Maze.
Omat
An elderly fisherman with a deformed arm but always ready to work. He is wary of people seeking information as "adventures only happen to rich folk".
The Old Man
Elven fisherman. The Old Man is undoubtedly the best and wisest of Sanctuary's resident fisherfolk.
Paratu
Fisherwoman. Cousin of Monkel. Suggested he treated the bird he was training like a person. She thinks Sanctuary is a hellhole.
Phryne
Teenage girlfriend of Tamzen, who, with her young sister, became trapped by Roxane after they had stupidly ventured out after dark at night, but survived to tell the tale.
Rahi
A large, florid, corpulent man who is a tinker and shares a stall in the Bazaar with Mriga. He boasts he has sold knives to the best assassins, but apart from his boasting, he is an honest tradesman.
Rosanda
Molin Torchholder's blonde, scatterbrained ex-wife. She was the perfect Rankene ornamental consort, but was abandoned by her husband for another woman and went to live with her brother-in-law Lowan Vigeles.
Sambar
Ilsigi boy who works for Cholly the Gluemaker. He is a 14 year old pudgy boy with olive skin and blue-black straight hair.
Sarah
Rankene widow of dead Terrel and sister-in-law of Cade. She is an attractive woman with a round face but thin and drawn since the murder of her husband. She didn't know her husband was supplying money and running contraband for the gangs. Sarah has two children, little Dru and a young teenaged son, Toth. Her children are said to have her husband's Ilsigi looks.
Shamara
Wig maker. Owns Shamara's Wig Shop which is supplied with human hair as a by-product from Cholly the Gluemaker. In her youth she had been striking but her present beauty owes more to the warmth she radiates from her sweet soul.
Shmurt
Ilsigi caretaker / bartender of the tenement that Masha lived in. Very protective and concerned about strangers entering the building. His apartment building was reduced to rubble, then he found employment as a construction labourer then bartender at the Vulgar Unicorn, working for Strick.
Silky
A barmaid at the Vulgar Unicorn. Silky regularly attaches herself to someone new. She is a good-looking tan-haired girl who doesn't like being pinched.
Tamzen
Young woman, daughter of a tavernkeeper, who loves Niko and was cursed by Roxane. She was in a play once.
Targ
Bodyguard. Targ's job is to watch over Cade's sister-in-law Sarah and his "wife" Marissa. He is a good man but a dangerous one. He has grey eyes and beard and is afraid of Cade.
Terci
Ilsigi Fisherman. An old fisherman and friend of the Old Man. He is a leader among the fisherfolk.
Thea
Uptown, fat man whose brother's ghost came back to reprimand him for taking up with a certain woman.
Timock
Youngest of Mariat's three grandchildren.
Toth
Teenaged boy. Son of Sarah and sister of Dru. His father was murdered. His uncle Cade returned to revenge his brother's death and now Toth idolizes the fighter as young boys will do. He has his father's dark appearance.
Varies
One of the elvish fisherman who have been around as long as the Old Man.
Wallu
Elderly mother of Masha. A tall, skinny, woman of sixty, with gaunt deeply-lined features. Her breath smells sour with sheep and goat's cheese.
Xavier
A street worker. DEAD - Found floating in the Harbour in Winter 807.
Yark the Fuller
Night soil collector. Driver of a flat cart which carries one of the Bazaar's two big calked-straw pisspots, which lurches precariously through the streets, making ominous sloshing noises.
Zandulas
Tanner. Owns Zandulas 's Tannery on Street of Tanners, a street where the stench on a hot day can make even a Downwinder nauseous. Zandulas is a friendly enough fellow, if he would ever bathe. Zandulas's supplies Cholly's Glue Shop which is next door.
Zorra
Elven Teenager. Young arrogant, snotty daughter of a slum landlord. A trim figure, copper-bright hair and dazzling eyes to the casual observer.
