Characters

The Lither heir the party reached too late to save, struck down on the road as he carried an urgent message to the King — proof that the Ottomans were using their weather pylons to ruin rival farmland. Torvin served at his side for years before the two of them fell out. He lies buried at the Jewel of the Lake.

The Lither patriarch, holding the family seat at Qavvik’s Tower. An old-guard Orderborne noble: stubborn, formal, slow to trust and slower to accept how far the family has fallen. He grieves his son quietly and has not yet named an heir.

Lord Lither’s personal steward of thirty years. He vanished from Qavvik’s Tower during the night of the assassination attack and has not been seen since.

An apothecary the party pulled out of Greef hands near the Pinch. He knows how to work Golden Mandrake into real medicine, which makes him a target for everyone who wants that knowledge buried. He travels under the party’s protection now, betrayed once already by a contact he trusted.

A name that keeps surfacing and never a face. V. Ottoman sold Silas Vane to the Greefs and sits somewhere near the heart of everything the party has been pulling apart. No one has met them. No one knows who they truly are.

A politically connected Haven weatherman and Bobby’s personal nemesis. He gave the false “clear day” forecast before the fire that took Bobby’s ship. Smug, well-protected, and touchy about the nickname “Scottoman.”

An Orderborne noble whose estate the Greefs seized and turned into a drug farm. The party freed the farm and Cassia rescued his family. He is now a guest at Qavvik’s Tower.

A violent Greef son who burned the Clover Tavern chasing the Golden Mandrake and murdered an honest farmer who was a client of Torvin’s. He is dead now, killed in the chaos of the attack on Qavvik’s Tower.

A name signed across the Stalkholm shipping manifests: V. Melda, head of research at the outpost. The party knows the name and that she runs whatever the Greefs have been feeding south. They have not yet met her.

The man who runs Shellsinki‘s counting house and, the party now knows, a link in the Greef cargo chain. He moved the channel marker that sent boats through the turtle cove, and he held his composure under questioning. Not quite well enough.