===== Named NPCs of Apocalyptica Arcanum =====

Below is a comprehensive list of named NPCs mentioned across established canon, categorized alphabetically, with divine and demonic entities from the Choir and Legion removed.

Last updated: 3/13/2026

==== A ====
  * **A-09 "SIREN"** [Copper Press Vol. 10]: An acoustic ordinance prototype automaton found at Verdigris Reef.
  * **Abartach** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: Known as the first vampire, a dynastic tyrant ruling in eastern Ireland since the early Age of Nations.
  * **Admiral Pablo Martin** [Campaign I]: An Amazonian naval officer mentioned by Khalid.
  * **Alara Windlass** [Campaign I]: Proprietor of a magic shop in Caracas who identifies arcane items for the party.
  * **Father Alexei Krovic** [Genesis]: A target for elimination aboard the //VSS Dominion//.
  * **Al-Saqqâ** [Copper Press Vol. 8]: Also known as the "Glass Jackal," a shard-born cryptid that prowls the Crescent Dunes.
  * **Rear Admiral Annatar** [Campaign I]: The high-ranking Amazonian Colonel who takes custody of the captured Baron.
  * **Anton Erekson** [Genesis]: A high-ranking Field Officer for Viroc Industries and right-hand to Lucien Drekanov.
  * **Anya** [Genesis]: A tattoo artist in St. Petersgrad who specializes in magical ink.
  * **Arthur Langdon** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: The human officer commanding the warforged security force aboard the //ESS Albacore//.

==== B ====
  * **Captain Barnabus "Barnaby" Harrier** [Campaign I / Copper Press Vol. 6]: A Lemurian privateer and former Cordoban officer who serves as a founding mentor and employer.
  * **Belos** [Campaign I]: A halfling hunter encountered on a small island, capable of assuming a bugbear form.
  * **Bill (8111)** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: An Atlantean warforged guard whose dismantling aboard the //ESS Albacore// sparked a mutiny investigation.
  * **Black Dog** [Origins - Black Dog]: A corrupting tyrant of Lakota legend who devoured the hearts of his people.
  * **Bobo, Bolo, Boo, Boss, and BB** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: Designation monikers for the Atlantean warforged sentinels aboard the //ESS Albacore//.
  * **Boblin** [Campaign I]: A goblin jeweler in Caracas who negotiates meetings with the city's ruler.
  * **Boom Boom the Juggler** [Campaign I]: A larger-than-life clown and bomb-thrower in Makalo's dark carnival.

==== C ====
  * **Calix Vargas** [Copper Press Vol. 13]: A chartered bounty-man in Panama and owner of the steam skiff *Prudence*.
  * **Caldwell Bitter** [Copper Press Vol. 2]: A private detective operating in the city of Gibson.
  * **Captain Dashan** [Campaign I]: An Amazonian officer whose name is used by the party for leverage and credentials.
  * **Captain Isaac Carver** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: The stern commander of the submersible //ESS Albacore//.
  * **Charles Mercier** [Origins - Black Dog]: A talkative hermit, trader, and trapper encountered in the Badlands.
  * **Chip** [Origins - The Wendigo]: A soldier and friend of Josiah Reubenson who was killed by a shadowy beast.
  * **Clara Aldecott** [What the Stone Kept]: The deceased daughter of Maren and Thomas Aldecott.
  * **Clem Torson** [Genesis]: A Viroc foreman who was transformed into a shard-mutant during a mining blast.

==== D ====
  * **Dimitri** [Campaign I]: A criminal figure in the city of Gorgon.
  * **Drax Trulia** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: The First Officer of the //ESS Albacore// who led a violent mutiny.
  * **Drigg Bronzefinger** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: An Arctican mechanic aboard the //ESS Albacore// who was killed during a scavenging expedition.
  * **Sergeant Dyrk** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A mercenary who vanished during the Hinterglass expedition.

==== E ====
  * **Professor Elias Crane** [Copper Press Vol. 14]: The Wizard Royal of the Cascadian Commonwealth who vanished in a temporal singularity.
  * **Elias Duvall** [Copper Press Vol. 2]: A runaway alchemist in Gibson who attempted to bottle pure emotion as ink.
  * **Commander Ellard Crosse** [Genesis]: An officer at Viroc Industries Headquarters.
  * **Sister Elsbeth** [Genesis]: An Atlantean network leader within the Cult of the Verdant Light.
  * **Elyas ibn Harun** [Copper Press Vol. 8]: A scholar of the unseen who inadvertently summoned the Glass Jackal in Al-Ramla.
  * **Embry** [Campaign I]: A scarred youth residing in Lobo Village.
  * **Father Émile Redding** [Copper Press Vol. 7]: A cleric who rededicated his faith to the Archangel Jasiri.
  * **Ernst Drekanov** [Genesis]: One of the brothers of the Drekanov dynasty.
  * **Evgeni Karsov** [Genesis]: A target for elimination aboard the //VSS Dominion//.

==== F ====
  * **Lt. Colonel James William Forsyth** [Origins - Black Dog]: A deformed mutant and former army officer turned militia leader in Bismarck.

==== G ====
  * **Galina Tesk** [Genesis]: A magical associate of Anton Erickson.
  * **Gao Qirong** [Copper Press Vol. 11]: A cruel alchemist to the Governor in Shanghai who operated the Mirror Kiln.
  * **George** [Origins - The Wendigo]: A lost child for whom a scam seance was performed in New York.
  * **Georgie Hristo** [Campaign I]: An exotic carcass dealer in Gorgon who employs the party to hunt a Neolithid.
  * **Gil** [Campaign I]: A lanky human wizard with a "knot" who serves as a deckhand for the *Sloop Dogg*.
  * **Grigor (the Ghost)** [Genesis]: A target in St. Petersgrad who owns Grigor’s Exchange beneath the Argent Spire.
  * **Grinjack** [Copper Press Vol. 2]: The wide-grinning owner of "The Soft Grin" club in Gibson.

==== H ====
  * **Doctor Hale** [Copper Press Vol. 12]: A cynical medical officer on the Red Plains Front of the Foreverwar.
  * **Halvor** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: An archivist who was consumed by Shardisite during the Hinterglass expedition.
  * **Hargrave Umfridus** [Campaign I]: A 60-year-old scholar and former intelligence advisor who joins the party's crew.
  * **Harold** [Genesis]: The Regent of Financial Affairs for Viroc Industries whose desiccated body was found in Drekanov Manor.
  * **Harold Drekanov** [Genesis]: The Regent of Continental Affairs who employs the party as his personal strike team in St. Petersgrad.
  * **Lord Harrison Blackwood** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A wealthy and influential member of the Europan Council of Merchants in Dresden.
  * **Harvey Proudbottom (The Baron)** [Campaign I]: The halfling pirate ruler of Caracas who was betrayed and eventually executed.
  * **Heinrich Voss** [Campaign I]: A man with one green eye and a member of a criminal ring in Gorgon who stole the Shanghai Slicker.
  * **Henry** [Campaign I]: A simple attendant at the gantry facility in Manticore.
  * **Hothud Copperhood** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: An Arctican dwarf engineer and mutineer aboard the //ESS Albacore//.

==== I ====
  * **Iktomi** [Origins - Black Dog]: The trickster spirit of Lakota legend who corrupted the Black Dog.
  * **Imogen** [Copper Press Vol. 3]: A ten-year-old "Toywright" in Willowmere whose imagination was fueled by a shardisite corona.
  * **Irina Talovska** [Genesis]: The owner of the Shardveil Reading Room in St. Petersgrad who was eventually killed by the party.
  * **Captain Isadora Nightingale** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: The commander of the elite Nightingale secret police in Dresden.
  * **Ishkode** [Origins - The Wendigo]: A young man with fire magic who assisted meteor survivors before his death.

==== J ====
  * **Jerome Crow Dog** [Origins - Black Dog]: An individual who shares the Lakota "end of the world" legend with travelers in Fargo.
  * **John Jacob Astor IV** [Manifestations]: An aristocrat of the Age of Collapse who ascended to become the world's first true lich.

==== K ====
  * **Kaz Vetrov** [Genesis]: A terrified former //VSS Dominion// crewman who provided intelligence against the Drekanovs.

==== L ====
  * **La Llorona** [Copper Press Vol. 13]: The "Wailing Woman" of Panama, a manifestation of collective sorrow and regret.
  * **Lenadra** [Genesis]: The wife of Kaz Vetrov.
  * **Lenora Bale** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A field correspondent and historian who was preserved in crystal during the Hinterglass expedition.
  * **Corporal Lennox** [Copper Press Vol. 12]: A soldier on the Red Plains Front who was killed during a shard-flux event.
  * **Lucien Drekanov** [Genesis]: The Executive Regent of Operations for Viroc Industries whose experiments led to the birth of the first dragon.

==== M ====
  * **Mara** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A surveyor who was encased in jade during the Hinterglass expedition.
  * **Maren Aldecott** [What the Stone Kept]: A settler in Salt Lake City whose journal documented the "Evangelical Rapture".
  * **Marta Skelland** [Genesis]: A woman in St. Petersgrad seeking a discreet investigator.
  * **Mikhail Dren** [Genesis]: A target for elimination aboard the //VSS Dominion//.
  * **Dr. Minerva Sedgewick** [Genesis]: The Regent of Arcane Affairs for Viroc Industries who attempted to assassinate Harold Drekanov.
  * **Miranda Frostbead** [Campaign I]: The deceased partner of Captain Barnaby whose death drives his quest for vengeance.
  * **Miyake Harrier** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II / Copper Press Vol. 6]: The daughter of Captain Barnaby and Nakajima Hanae.

==== N ====
  * **Nakajima Hanae** [Copper Press Vol. 6]: An aerostat mechanic in Kyoto and the mother of Miyake Harrier.
  * **Nicola Cornelius** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A sailor and mutineer aboard the //ESS Albacore//.

==== O ====
  * **Father Obregon** [Copper Press Vol. 9]: A high-ranking Shard Warden abbot on the Caribbean coast.
  * **Odette Duvall** [Copper Press Vol. 2]: A wealthy client in Gibson searching for her missing brother.
  * **Ormus** [Campaign I]: A boisterous, bald dwarf deckhand who serves aboard the *Sloop Dogg*.
  * **Gunnery Sergeant Orren** [Copper Press Vol. 12]: A veteran soldier on the Red Plains Front.
  * **Ozzy** [Campaign I]: An elderly resident of Lobo Village.

==== P ====
  * **Mr. Pallor** [Copper Press Vol. 3]: A velvet-gloved merchant who attempted to steal Imogen's shard corona.
  * **Petyr Sarnov** [Genesis]: A rising figure in the Cult of the Verdant Light involved in illicit trade.
  * **Field General Philander Bramwell Neckett** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A career officer who became a primary leader of the revolution in Dresden.
  * **Pitch** [Copper Press Vol. 10]: The ship dog of Riko Cardona.

==== R ====
  * **Prince Rafael de Mayo** [Campaign I]: An Amazonian prince residing in an opulent Gothic castle in Petrolina.
  * **Emperor Razaq One-Eye** [Bengal Isles]: A Tabaxi warlord and absolute ruler of the Bengal Empire.
  * **Raze** [Campaign I]: A resident of Lobo Village whose brutal death was investigated by the party.
  * **Chief Red Crow** [Origins - Black Dog]: The leader of the Brule Lakota who guides travelers on spirit journeys.
  * **Red-Fang Zhen** [Copper Press Vol. 11]: A lieutenant in the Black Lotus Syndicate in Shanghai.
  * **Remus** [Campaign I]: An elder of Lobo Village.
  * **Ricky** [Campaign I]: A Goliath bookie operating in the city of Gorgon.
  * **Riko "Spitfire" Cardona** [Copper Press Vol. 10]: The captain of the salvage cutter *Grackle* who recovered the Siren prototype.
  * **Captain Roarke** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A mercenary commander on the Hinterglass expedition who lost his toes.
  * **Rorix** [Campaign I]: The operator of "The Busted Knuckle" pawn shop in Caracas.
  * **Midshipman Royden** [Campaign I]: An Amazonian guard stationed at the Baron's former compound.
  * **Rufus** [Campaign I]: The bartender at the Hedge Hall tavern in Petrolina.

==== S ====
  * **Samira Zagant** [Campaign I]: A merchant in Gorgon seeking his son who was sold to slavers.
  * **Sampson Hornblower** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A halfling engineer and mutineer aboard the //ESS Albacore//.
  * **Governor Scarborough** [Campaign I]: The Cordoban governor whose galleon pursued the party.
  * **Maya Serrano** [Copper Press Vol. 13]: The Chief Coroner of the Canal Authority in Panama.
  * **Seraphim Drekanov** [Genesis]: The bedridden elder of the Drekanov dynasty.
  * **Shambly** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: An ancient, agonizingly slow undead goblin who became an archivist in Dresden.
  * **Sheila** [Campaign I]: A massive half-orc woman and champion brawler in the city of Gorgon.
  * **Captain Shou Liang** [Copper Press Vol. 11]: The commander of the Imperial Excise Guard in Shanghai.
  * **Shusiva** [Campaign I]: A telepathic wolf entity known as the "Father of all Werewolves".
  * **Sien** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A surveyor who was encased in jade during the Hinterglass expedition.
  * **Silen Koresh** [Genesis]: A target for elimination aboard the //VSS Dominion//.
  * **Sir Reginald Sterling** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A wealthy member of the Europan Council of Merchants.
  * **Vitaly Stepan** [Campaign I]: A private investigator hired in Gorgon to find missing crewmen.

==== T ====
  * **Captain Tariq** [Copper Press Vol. 8]: The scarred leader of the Bronze Mamluks in Arabia.
  * **Thomas Aldecott** [Copper Press - What the Stone Kept]: A settler in Salt Lake City who disappeared during the equinox ritual.
  * **Tilda** [Campaign I]: A Tabaxi blacksmith in Lobo Village.
  * **Tomasz Brenner** [Genesis]: The Maitre'D at The Gilded Gull restaurant in Murmansk.

==== V ====
  * **Dr. Vell** [Copper Press Vol. 1]: A metaphysicist on the Hinterglass expedition who was crystallized.
  * **Dr. Velka Noor** [Copper Press Vol. 5]: An exiled Viroc alchemist in London who attempted to bridge the divine.
  * **Victor Sorn** [Copper Press Vol. 6 / Vol. 9]: A Lemurian spy who provided evidence against House Galaviz.

==== W ====
  * **Warrick Drutha** [Apocalyptica Arcanum II]: A Cascadian helmsman aboard the //ESS Albacore// who was killed during the mutiny.
  * **Abraham Wheeler** [Campaign I]: A powerful underboss of the Deep Crimson Syndicate.
  * **Whitfield** [Copper Press - What the Stone Kept]: A former railroad engineer who explained shardisite as a conductor of intention.
  * **William** [Origins - The Wendigo]: A spirit who died in 1858 and became a companion to John Wilson.
  * **Willis** [Campaign I]: An enforcer for Abraham Wheeler.
  * **Wochikeye** [Origins - Black Dog]: A Lakota Medicine Man who assists travelers in interpreting their journeys.

==== Y ====
  * **Yue** [Copper Press Vol. 6]: A mute picklock hired by Captain Barnaby for a heist in Kyoto.
  * **Yuri Blackheart** [Origins - The Wendigo]: The brother of Katya Blackheart who burned from the inside out.

==== Z ====
  * **Emperor Zhu Long** [Manchuria]: The "Son of Heaven" and absolute monarch of the Manchurian Empire.