The Windy Road: Non-player Characters

Creatures of Akraisel, Angel of the Mysteries

Her Imperial Majesty, Akraisel, Lady of Mysteries, Angel of the Secret regions and Chief of the Supreme Mysteries

Our PCs' Imperatrix. Her full writeup is also available.

Antonio Gaudí Y Cornet

The architect Antonio Gaudí Y Cornet has been brought back to life/restored to flesh/reincarnated by Akriasel and set free upon the City of Lost Alleys and then given a degree of power for some enigmatic purpose. Gaudi seeks to continue his life's architectural work, unleashing the remarkable range of forms, textures, and polychromy and the free, expressive way in which these elements of his art seem to be composed upon the City of Lost Alleys. Gaudi is preoccupied by his work, which is slow as he relies on local workers. The scope of his work could, eventually, cause problems with the Power's own plans.

Allen Reed

Allen Reed is a 1920s pulp adventurer. He's a big American man with a hearty, straightforward manner and connections in practically every country on the planet, from arms dealers in Zurich to Tantric cults in British India. He is also one of Alec Hollenger's anchors.

Stephen Basset

Basset is the Chief Editor of the New York Times. He was Merlin's boss in his human life, and was anchored upon his ennoblement. Here's a link to Dan's writeup.

Abraham Adisa Gyamif

Abraham Adisa Gyamfi is the master drummer of his village in the Ashanti region of Ghana. In this role, he is also one of the keepers of the oral tradition of his people. He is a quasi-mystical figure, with access to a huge amount of folk and spirit lore. He draws power and wisdom from the stories he knows, and has exhibited certain mystical or sorcerous powers.

He is another of Merlin's anchors. See Dan's writeup.

Blake

Blake is a man-eating Bengal tiger that Nezha has adopted. She plans on raising it to sentience and giving it magical powers.

Creatures of Ineri, the Serpent of Progress

Marianna, Duchess of Information

Marianna is a beautiful blonde woman who dresses in Victorian clothing. Her design inlcudes sprigs of thyme and the white-blossomed thorny stem of creeping cereus entwined around tall, spike-like clusters of blossoms of royal-purple Lupine.

We have not spoken with her in great detail yet.

Malcolm, Duke of Confluence

Malcolm is a man usually dressed in the style of a courtier from Renaissance Florence. His design consists of a black circle outline (unaligned), with a green field. A black open flower (wisdom) of four cross-shaped petals (tranquility), crossing an open purple flower (nobility) of five separate petals (remorse)

So far, he seems to be something of a party animal.

Lucius Darin, Evolution's-regal

Lucius is dressed in an elegant pin-striped double-breasted suit, a corsage of an open flower with rainbow petals arranged in a spiral design (the flower of Evolution), set on a silver stalk of alternate leaves (the stalk of Evolution).

We have spoken to him briefly, about the explosion of Earths that followed the enchancelment of Akraisel.

Creatures of Makatiel

Vito Jocoy, Graf Ambition

Conflagration of Makahtiel's Will Upon Creation, Dark Lord of the Order of the Dying Star

White Hollyhock, symbol of Ambition, upon a bed of Fennel, symbol of Force, with a background incarnadine and black swirling pattern.

Censor Marie Larisch Countesa Banality,

Grail Lady to the Order of the Dying Star, Justicar Thule

Thistle wrapped around Lupine symbolizing the austerity of imagination framed by the virulent poison-green circle, lightly spattered with translucent darkness, of Hell.

Silas Ritter, Knight of Fanaticism

Dark Knight of Makahtiel, Dark Sun Illuminating the Wasteland

The Arum flower of ferociousness and deceit astride a bed of white poppies, symbolic of the bane of fanaticism upon a virulent poison- green circle, lightly spattered with translucent darkness.

Theola Kirkeby, Marchessa of the Masses,

True Queen of Thule, Smothering Shadow of Makahtiel

The Corn Flower, symbol of Abundance, smothered by Thyme, symbol of activity, together symbolizing the strength of the masses wasted upon a virulent poison-green circle, lightly spattered with translucent darkness

Gerhard Schultz, Viscount of Redundancy,

Warden of the Order of the Dying Star, Gatekeeper of Thule

Amaranth, the Flower of the Immutable, and Apocynum, the Flower of Falsehood, vying for center place on a field of Fir against the virulent poison-green circle, lightly spattered with translucent darkness, of Hell.

Creatures of Ram-Khvastra, the Inquisitor

Ram-Khvastra, True God of Discomfort, Inquisitor of Earth

Ram-Khvastra is the True God of Discomfort. Brought into existence during the birththroes of Earth, he existed before humans even understood pain, and he pre-dates forces of both Dark and Light. Over time his Estates have expanded to include Coping and Stalking through the actions of humanity.

From Ram-Khvastra Discomfort conveys both costs and benefits. Discomfort can be the harbinger of challenge, a spur to growth and innovation or a warning that things are not well. It can also be a distracting curse to blight those who offend him or his chosen. Ram- Khvastra has been a patron of ascetics, yogis, mountain priests, Celtic bards and physicians but also of torturers, nags, shrews, bullies, the sick, and fear-mongers.

Somewhat demanding and cruel, Ram-Khvastra is nevertheless honorable. He does not treat with Hell (although they have courted him many times), and will not deal with Excrucians – he lost a major cult some 100 years ago to Excrucian corruption. Recently Ram-Khvastra was granted a position as Inquisitor against the Excrucians replacing a slain Inquisitor). He is now one of a Council of Four Ymerae whose job it is to investigate the actions of Excrucian Mimics on Earth. Inconsequence he began enNobling Powers and creating a Chancel on Earth. To this end he has appropriated the sage city of Gandhara from the mountains of 4th Century Pakistan, and turned it over to his Powers to make a suitably grand citadel, fortress, place of inquisition, reflection and study.

Reshima, Marchessa of Coping

Lady of Tears, Sunfire that Illuminates Mercy

Pear Tree and the Elder Tree entwined as lovers. The Pear Tree signifies Comfort and the Elder Tree is of Compassion.

Mari, Duchess of Discomfort

Singer of the Pristine Notes of Her Lord's Keening

Aloe and Marigold, twinned flowers of grief clasped by a sprig of Saffron, symbol of the fate of all in this world.

Liam, Viscount of Stalking

Celestial Guardian of Gandhara, Unerring Conflagration of His Lord's Justice

Purple Columbine surrounds and embraces the flowers of Tremella, signifying persistence over resistance, the true sign of the hunt.

Creatures of Necropolis Tayarsen

The Duke of Mausoleums

The apparently-nameless duke of Mausoleums appears as a robed and cowled man, his face invisible in the dark of his hood.

Creatures of Adalia, Shining Lord of the Sea

Adalia

Adalia is the Inspiring Imperator who sank Atlantis and claimed it as a Chancel. Adalia is a Wildlord. Like some of his kind, he reasons that freedom is a quality in the individual heart, and not in one's circumstances. He wishes his Powers to be free spirits, and yet he desires them utterly bound to him. To ensure this, he has donned the shining aspect of an Inspiring Imperator. He does not have any great virtue or vice, as such things go -- but those who encounter his Earthly form (even Powers) generally fall in love at once.

Casmir, Lord of Death by Drowning

True King of Atlantis, Lord Over Death by Drowning

A crown of water willow, symbolizing his glory and his past atop a carpet of black popular. In the sky hangs an upside down chalice from which three droplets of water fall.

Anabelle, Regal of the Bridge

Regal of the Bridge, Watcher of Possibilities, the Everlasting Light of Atlantis

The Cornelian Cherry Tree rising amidst Coral Honeysuckle over which a Crescent Moon hangs in a blue sky.

Mahadi, Duchess of Three

Duchess of the Power of Three, Thrice-fold Justice of Atlantis, She who will Bless the Earth Threefold

The Cymbidium, symbol of difference, rising over three blossoms of the orchid Paphiopedilum delenatii, the earthly representation of the number three.

Creatures of the Earth

Theodore E. Franklin

Mr. Theodore E. Franklin, age 52, is a Wall Street dealmaker, venture capitalist, financier and lobbyist, trilingual, with extensive experience in conceptualizing and incorporating worldwide geopolitical and intelligence data into effective strategic business initiatives. Throughout his career, Mr. Franklin has worked on more than 600 transactions representing approximately $300 billion in value and ranging in size from $5 million - $35 billion, and personally raised in excess of $60 billion in privately placed debt and equity financing for more than 60 companies involved in leveraged buyout, acquisition financing, growth financing and corporate restructuring worldwide.

In addition to his professional work, Mr. Franklin has been a business angel investor in a number of ventures and an advisor and board member for numerous entrepreneurial ventures, large and small.

Mr. Franklin holds an M.B.A in financial engineering from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Harvard University.

That, at least, is the face he gives to the public. Those who dwell in shadows and those of miraculous nature know more about Teddy E Franklin. Teddy is the spider-in-the-center of the web. The chief member of the Cammorae in San Francisco and an important member of the organization world wide. There is little in the areas of corruption and crime that he is not intimately familiar with, and little that he does not control.

Teddy E. Franklin is a corpulent man with a deep raspy voice. He rarely leaves his mansion in Pacific Heights, preferring to direct his transactions from the symbolic center of his Empire.

Linda Greene

As a Professor of Law, Professor Greene taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedures, Legislation, and Civil and Constitutional Rights. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley Law School and received her B.A. from California State University at Long Beach. She has had an interesting and diverse career. After law school she was a civil rights attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York, the law firm which the late Thurgood Marshall led in the 50's and 60's. She began her teaching career as an assistant professor at Temple University, was a tenured associate professor at the University of Oregon as well as a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown. She left full-time teaching to serve as Counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee where she specialized in judicial confirmation, federal courts, constitutional law, and civil rights issues. She participated in the U.S. Senate's consideration of five Supreme Court nominees as well as numerous lower federal court confirmation proceedings. In 1988, she took a five month leave from the Judiciary Committee to work for the Jackson and Dukakis presidential election campaigns. She returned to full time teaching at University California at Berkeley in 1989. She has written on a wide range of issues including Constitutional equality, civil rights laws, presidential and congressional powers, and education law, and has taught law in Germany, Ghana, and Japan. In 2003 her activism caused her to resign her position at the University California: Berkeley to dedicate herself full-time to her work around mental health for children, an area of interest which had grown in importance to her personally and professionally through the latter half of the 1990s.

She loves to read biographies of writers and artists and spends her spare time on her bike and in bookstores, art galleries and museums. Linda Greene is a middle-aged (50s) African-American woman of middle stature who is heavily athletic.

Other Creatures

W, the Lord of Denial

We know nothing of him, save that he is a Noble in the second age.

The Hierophant

She is a Power in service to the Light, who lives in the second age. She is one of the rulers of Mohenjodaro.