Native PCs - Family NPCs

[Dawn]

Sorinia Vasilescu

NPC Name: Ana Vasilescu
Relation to PC: Mother, Age 36
NPC Location: Used to live in the Village of Barovia.

Describe the NPC: A tired, old woman with dark hair, dark eyes but a light attitude. While Sorinia was not her child by blood, she loved her all the same along with her son after adopting the girl while she was still a baby. A Morninglordian worshipper, Ana was unexpectedly kind for a Barovian. When the family attempted journey to move to Vallaki with the promise of a better life, she lost her life during the wolf attack on Old Svalich Road.

NPC Name: Antoniu Vasilescu
Relation to PC: Father, Age 38
NPC Location: Used to live in the Village of Barovia.

Describe the NPC: A short, stout man with greyed hair and a bushy moustache, a leatherworker in the Village, Antoniu did his best to provide for his family under the hard conditions of the town. While his love for the Morninglord was not as great as his wife, he still agreed Vallaki would provide a kinder future than the Village itself. He was the first one to pass away when the wolves attacked.

NPC Name: Matei Vasilescu
Relation to PC: Older brother, age 21.
NPC Location: Used to live in the Village of Barovia.

Describe the NPC: The recent bread-winner of the family, Matei was a man of strength, and he did the hunting for his father's leatherworking business when hide was needed. Sharing his mother's colours, in contrast to his sister's auburn and hazel, he had deep brown hair and near-black eyes. Despite having a lover back in the Village who worked at the inn at times, he chose to see his family safely settled into Vallaki and departed with them. He also died, during the wolf attack.

NPC Name: Anghei Vasilescu
Relation to PC: Uncle, age 35
NPC Location: Village of Barovia

Describe the NPC: Antoniu's younger brother, Anghei lives in the village with his own family, a wife and three sons. He had warned his brother about trying to move to Vallaki, about the dangers of the road, but they did not listen. He took over Antoniu's leftover clients and business.

[TherapyCat]

Adelina Artenie ((Formally Barbescu))
Relation To PC: Self, 20
Describe the NPC: A rather attractive Barovian female, with deep black hair and honey-brown eyes. She dresses quite fashionably and seems to have had prior dreams of grandeur that died as quickly as her late husband, Louis Artenie, did. The young widow seems to have a sunny disposition, despite this.

NPC Name: Maria Barbescu
Relation To PC: Mother, age 36.
NPC Location: Eastern Farmlands
Describe the NPC: A rather intelligent woman, and farmer's wife. She is known for her quick wit, dry sarcasm, and no-nonsense attitude. Black hair, and brown eyes. Rather plain, looking. She does not talk to Adelina at all and has convinced the rest of her family to shun her entirely after she married and ran off with a dementileuse commoner at 13.


NPC Name: Nicolae Barbescu
Relation To PC: Father, 42
NPC Location: Eastern Farmlands
Describe the NPC: A simpleton of a man, generally incompetent. Strong, hardworking, and overly masculine. Moderately attractive. Brown hair, brown eyes.


NPC Name: Draguta  Cozma (Formally Barbescu)
Relation To PC: Older Sister, 24
NPC Location: Kroftburg.
Describe the NPC: A rather quiet, yet hardworking woman, who married a wealthy merchant and left the farm to create a life with him inside of kroftburg. She birthed two children
Dorin (age 5) and Dimitry (age 2). She is married to a barovian man, Daniel Cozma (age 36)

NPC Name: Celestina Rosetti (Formally Barbescu)
Relation To PC: Older Sister 22
NPC Location: Eastern Farmlands
Describe the NPC:  A rather strong and resilient young woman. Not very attractive, but she serves her family proud, as her and her husband live on the land and assist the family with the sheep herding business. She is currently with child, and should give birth come the fall. Undoubtedly her family's favorite child, for obvious reasons.

NPC Name: Bioan Barbescu
Relation To PC: Older Brother (would have been) Deceased at age 3.
NPC Location:  Buried Within the Eastern Farmlands
Describe the NPC: a rather joyful child, who came down with an unknown sickness. Died rather quickly, and slipped off during the night.

[Day Old Bread]

Julia Weisz

Name: Lea Weisz
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Teufeldorf
Occupation: Seamstress
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Julia knows very little of her mother aside from the fact that she vehemently supports Ardonk Szerieza and the rebellion. Though she never did take up arms, she has supported through other means, taking in strangers to her home and hiding them, sending whatever supplies and provisions she could spare to Castle Hunadora, and other such practices. Whenever the subject of Julia's birth was broached, her mother would find some excuse to clam up. After many attempts, Julia gave up asking. As her mother has kept to their Gundarakite traditions and customs, Julia is left to assume that she is the product of either rape, or some trickery by the foul vistani man who is her father. The seedy truth is that her mother willingly and knowingly bed the vistani man whom she had become infatuated with in her youth. A secret she has done well to bury. A shame upon herself and her people.

Name: Pal Sitari
Relation to PC: Father
NPC Location: Wandering the Mists
Occupation: Horse Handler
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Pal Sitari is a vistani of the Equaar tribe. His deep connection with animals, particularly horses, has lead him to become one of his tribes horse handlers. While travelling through Barovia, he met Julia's mother, a very young woman at the time. He seduced her easily, as she was barely more than a girl, and the pair laid together on his last night in Teufeldorf. She bore him a daughter that he would never know. It is likely he still does not know as he wanders the mists with his tribe.

Name: Anton Czapek
Relation to PC: Mentor
NPC Location: Teufeldorf (Deceased)
Occupation: Traveler and adventurer (Retired)
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A whithered old man who spent many years travelling and adventuring. He was an uncommon man among the Gundarakite people. In his youth he worked farms and kept to the traditions of his people. Around the age of 30, he struck out to explore the land and it's people. In his travels, he learned of the Divinity of Mankind which he studied for some time. Around the age of 60, he returned home to find his country had been taken over by the forces fo Barovia and Invidia. Having little fight left in him, he kept to a quiet life of solitude within the city of Teufeldorf. The neighbors and children of the area regarded him as strange and reclusive. He lived a simple life adhering to the teachings he had learned abroad and admiring the many artifacts he had collected over the years. One day, a wild young woman stole into his home and tried to make off with one of those artifacts, a scroll case that was intricately adorned with gold and silver. He caught her, raised the guard, and upon hearing that she would lose a hand, took her in to begin teaching her a better way of living. He worked with Julia daily until the time of his passing from natural causes around the age of 80. While he could not impart all of his wisdom upon her, she regards him very highly to this day.

[Greasus Goldtooth (Birdman)]

HAUS ARMBRÜSTER

KRAUZER ARMBRÜSTER

"ZURÜCK NACH VORNE"

"Back to the front"

~ GENERATION I ~

Name: Ulrich Armbrüster I (NPC; Grandfather)
Status: Alive
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): The current symbolic patriarch of Haus Armbrüster, he is in his current state very old and venerable. A fair chunk of the family's finances go towards keeping him alive and healthy. Doctors are surprised he has lived to such age. In his younger years he has proven quite the capable soldier. But he has now grown into a man wishing for his death. As his body has become useless he is no longer the soldier he used to be. Instead he is in a way cursed to observe his great lineage and endure all of its hardship. Ulrich has lost many sons and daughters to his enemies, and has had the misfortune of burying many of his grandchildren. Ulrich bitterly hates the Darkonians the most who have taken many of his children and his grandchild Ulrich II who served as his name sake and legacy.

Name: Felizia Armbrüster (NPC; Grandmother)
Status: Deceased ~ 789
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Felizia was the wife of Ulrich and served as an wizardess in the Ministry of the Arcane. Grandmother was always busy into her studies and labor even as she entered old age. Where her husband Ulrich's body became old and frail; her mind continued to seek answers. Felizia died in her chair over an open book studying until the very end of her life leaving Ulrich without his life long companion one of the few who lived.

~ GENERATION II ~

Name: Hauke Armbrüster (NPC; Father)
Status: Alive
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): The acting patriarch of the Armbrüster family, Hauke is a seasoned warrior that despite his older age he continues to work with Drakov's armies forever obedient to the war machine. he is visually impaired missing an eye that he had lost during a skirmish with Darkon. Hauke is very proud of his family Though like his own father before him war begins to wear on him as he buries more and more of his own children while he yet lives.

Name: Madleen Armbrüster (NPC; Mother)
Status: Alive
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Wife to Hauke, Madleen is a very proud wizardess that serves in the Ministry of the Arcane. Perhaps her greatest regret is that her only daughter chose to enroll in the military rather than following a tradition she wished to begin to mark her own familial legacy. Despite this, Madleen has worked hard to arrange marriages between Ministry women and military men in her family. Madleen considers the marriage of Krauzer and Anja (PC) to be one of her greatest successes towards her family goals. Prideful but intelligent in her own right; Madleen serves as a faithful companion to Hauke.

Name: Kaspar Armbrüster (NPC; Uncle)
Status: Alive
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Kaspar is one of the few siblings of Hauke that survived into his adult years. A very capable swordsman known for his skill with a messer blade. Kaspar has had a hand in training all of the young Armbrüster men including Hauke's sons. Despite his swordsman ship his ability to command has been lacking. Forever living in the shadow of his elder brother Hauke yet despite this he is content with his position.

Name: Stella Armbrüster (NPC; Aunt)
Status: Alive
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): The wife of Kaspar, Stella served the Falkovnian military for many years in the Ministry of Intelligence before she was forced into retirement when a powder keg took her leg. It's a tale that she never ceases to talk about. If she can find an opportunity to explain how she got a wooden leg; she'll tell you. Needless to say she was never the same after the incident had instead been resigned to administrative work for Falkovnia's armies.

~ GENERATION III ~

Name: Ulrich Armbrüster II (NPC; Brother 3rd Eldest in the family)
Status: Deceased ~ 774
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Ulrich was lost in the field of battle in a skirmish with Darkon. The loss of Ulrich the II has been considered a great and sorrowful loss for the family as he was the name sake of the grandfather Ulrich Armbrüster I. Ulrich the II was a great training partner for Krauzer Armbrüster and they were particularly very close as brothers. Ulrich the II had looked up to Krauzer and tried to emulate him while he was alive.

Name: Falko Armbrüster (NPC; Brother 4th Eldest in the family)
Status: Deceased ~ 774
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Falko has always been a stern and stubborn person. The strong and silent type who likes to brood and observe rather than get involved unless he feels it is absolutely necessary. Falko was the twin brother of Fritz (PC) who is the exact opposite in nature; yet despite this the two were attached at the hip and made incredible team work. Falko fell in battle in a skirmish with Darkon that not only took his life but the life of Ulrich II.

Name: Elma Armbrüster (NPC; Sister 5th Eldest in the family)
Status: Deceased ~ 778
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Elma was the first daughter of Hauke and Madleen. Though Madleen had tried desperately to push her towards the arcane arts; she instead found herself lacking in the arcane studies but a gift for physical activity. Elma would join the Falkovnian military and would serve until her death. Elma died during the Silent Fields campaign.

Name: Ludwig Armbrüster (NPC; Brother 6th Eldest in the family)
Status: Deceased ~ 778
NPC Location: Falkovnia
Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Ludwig was one of the youngest sons of the Armbrüster family and was known for his very curious spirit. Ludwig was a very close brother to Reinfried Armbrüster (PC) and the two were often compared to Fritz and Falko. One day an assignment separated the two and Reinfried would never see Ludwig again until his corpse was brought back from the Silent Fields Campaign. If Ludwig was alive today he would have been twenty-one years of age.

[Flat Cap]

Ioana Leonte

Name: Vitalie Leonte
Relation to PC: Father
NPC Location: Prison
Occupation: Horse Trader and Breeder
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Vitalie Leonte was a loving father and an excellent trader and breeder of horses. His specialty being draft horses, bred to pull plows and wagons. His instance upon educating his only daughter as seen her schooled in combat, commerce, and linguistics. Having no sons, he wanted to ensure that someone in his family was equipped to carry on the family business. The wealth he acquired afforded him and his family a level of comfort very rare among the Barovian people. Unfortunately, one night in the very recen past, the count's men came to the family farm in the low mountains just north of Krezk, and carried Vitalie away without explanation. Ioana fled, upon her return, she found the family coffers had been emptied, and the horses were no where to be found.

Name: Despina Leonte (formerly Marcovici)
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Deceased (buried on the family farm north of Krezk)
Occupation: Travelling Bard turned Horse Groomer
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A beautiful and kind Barovian woman with long, flowing brown hair and ample curves. In her youth, she travelled from town to town sharing stories, song, and music at local inns. She and Vitalie met when she was sixteen and the pair fell in love. She moved to his farm and together they raised Ioana in a loving home. Despina taught her how to play the lute and imparted upon her a sense of joy and wonder about the wide world, in spite of the darkness of Barovia. Sadly, a few years ago, Despina became quite sick and succumbed to her illness after months of suffering. It left a mark on both Ioana and her father.

[Kleomenes]

Gautier Dupin

Name: Jean Dupin
Relation to PC: Father
NPC Location: Deceased in 762 (buried in a pauper's grave)
Occupation: Skilled Teamster, then Warehouse Worker
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Initially a loving husband and father, Jean lost his lucrative work as a teamster when a crate fell on his leg due to badly maintained crane. After that he worked in the same workhouse as his wife and wallowed in self-pity and resentment. He spent much of his wages on cheap wine and passed the time venting his frustrations on his spouse and children. Complications of his injury and his alcohol abuse killed him in 762, by which point he was not missed.

Name: Agnes Dupin (nee Clourette)
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Deceased (mangled remains buried in a pauper's grave)
Occupation: Workhouse worker
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A workhouse worker and mother of three children with Jean Dupin. Agnes endured the downturn in the family's fortunes after Jean's injury, but when his wage was lost with his death, even the little he used to refrain from spending was enough that it was impossible to make ends meet. Agnes moved her two surviving children in with her sister, Renée, and her brother-in-law, Claude Bouchet. While the new family home was crowded and struggled to survive, it was happier than it was.. Alas Agnes was killed during Foquelaine's bombardment of the Ouvrier.

Name: Annie Dupin
Relation to PC: Sister
NPC Location: Deceased in 761 (buried in a pauper's grave)
Occupation: Child
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Younger sister of Gautier. Middle child. Died of sickness and malnutrition when she was four.

Name: Béraude Dupin
Relation to PC: Sister
NPC Location: Quartier Ouvrier, Bouchet Residence
Occupation: Workhouse Worker then  Waitress
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Younger sister of Gautier, 19 years old. Like Gautier she began working in workhouses at a young age, and stuck with it to help support her aunt, Renée. Although she has the lean look of all Ouvrier residents she still maintains the beauty of youth, and as she has grown up has been able to to secure shifts of more lucrative work as a tavern waitress, where she has shown she has as sharp a tongue as Gautier. This increased income is keeping the family afloat. She still lives with Renée and is close to her. Gautier and Béraude were estranged for a time when he drifted towards the gangs and while things are better now, she still is hurt that he puts his obsession with politics over the family.

Name: Claude Bouchet
Relation to PC: Uncle
NPC Location: Deceased in 770 (buried in a pauper's grave)
Occupation: Warehouse worker
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A bear of a man, Claude had a kind heart and supported his wife Renée's decision to take in Agnes and her children. He did his best to be a father figure to Gautier and his sister Béraude, but this was cut short when he was killed during the fighting against the Falkovnian Incursion as part of the People's National Army.

Name: Renée Bouchet
Relation to PC: Aunt
NPC Location: Quartier Ouvrier, Bouchet Residence
Occupation: Workhouse worker
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A kindly woman, much loved by her husband and her family. She treated Gautier like one of her own after his mother died, but when he began drifting towards the gangs she ended up kicking him out so that he would not lead Béraude or her own children down the same path.  She has been very happy that he turned his life around, particularly as he began sending what money he could to the family. She has been quicker to forgive his behaviour than Béraude. Renée is beginning to age and is finding work harder, which is already affecting her earning capacity. 

Name: Karine Bouchet
Relation to PC: Cousin
NPC Location: Chateaufaux?
Occupation: Runaway!
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): Renée and Claude's eldest surviving child, she is the same age as Gautier. She precocious and a bit of a handful as a child. Her and Gautier were close, andwhen Gautier began to drift towards the gangs, she was drifting with him, which was a major cause of Renée kicking Gautier out. Karine was headstrong though, and just became sly in her mixing with ne'er do wells. She ended up running off in 778, allegedly fleeing to Chateaufaux with her then boyfriend who was wanted by the Gendarmerie over some muggings. The first and last Renée heard of this was her farewell note. Gautier searched for Karine when he was staying in Chateaufaux this year, but found no sign of her.

Name: Hubert Bouchet
Relation to PC: Cousin
NPC Location: Quartier Ouvrier, Bouchet Residence
Occupation: Warehouse Worker
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): The youngest of the Bouchet children. Hubert has just turned 20 but he is both sickly and a little "simple" as the family calls it. His was a difficult birth and it is likely he has some manner of mild cerebral palsy, the management of which is well beyond the means or understanding of an Ouvrier family. He is like a little brother to Gautier and somewhat hero worships him, reading issues of La Cause and considering himself a devout revolutionary. His mother keeps a tight rein on him, however, and he remains in his job at the workhouse, although his health does not allow him to work so many shifts. There is a constant anxiety in the family that he will lose his job and it will become impossible to make ends meet.

Name: Thibault Simoneau
Relation to PC: Adoptive Grandfather
NPC Location: Deceased (No grave, but presumably his pieces landed somewhere)
Occupation: Bookstore Owner
Description of the NPC (less than 100 words): A bookstore owner and retired adventurer, who teenage Gautier tried to mug. The exchange led to some humility being beaten into Gautier and Thibault taking the boy under his wing. It is from Thibault and his books that Gautier got the bulk of his learning, as well guidance to develop his bardic talent. In return, as Thibault aged, Gautier began to support him by taking a job as  a clerk. Although Thibault did not discourage Gautier's exploration of revolutionary thought, he did keep him out of activism for fear of what would befall him. Alas, Thibault was messily killed when Hazlani terrorists blew up the Publique.

[Along the Warlock Road]

Valerian Amanar

NPC Name: Marius Amanar
Relation to PC: Father
NPC Location: Unknown

Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): Valerian's only parent. Marius is both Valerian's biological father and mentor. The Barovian man was adventurous throughout his youth, going out of his way to explore much of Barovia and the certain parts of the Core. After Valerian was born, he settled in Immol and received a job as a scribe. Marius was considered to be a strange recluse by locals, and his higher than normal education sparked a lot of suspicion.

Some time after Valerian's wedding to Rahela Dalakis, Marius mysteriously disappeared without a trace.

NPC Name: Unknown Woman
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Unknown

Describe the NPC (less than 100 words): The status of this woman is currently unknown, it is possible she is dead or has long been forgotten. Details of her life nor identity has never been unveiled to Valerian throughout his entire childhood, but it has been implied that she's Barovian.

[Lightweaver]

Rahela Amanar (Dalakis)

NPC Name: Ramona Dalakis (Vianu) [Deceased]
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Immol Graveyard
Describe the NPC:
A Barovian woman of a rare academic upbringing, her family was attached to endeavors of the quill, to include the likes of administration, reckoning numbers, and restoring damaged tomes. She was greatly interested in the Teodorus Archives but chose to marry and travel with her husband where she was afforded more worldly sights for a tie. She contracted a wasting sickness and passed at home.

NPC Name: Simon Dalakis
Relation to PC:  Father
NPC Location: Immol
Describe the NPC:
The Dalakis family is one of Barovian traders. Simon no longer travels and maintains the family business within Immol. It is a modest business of comfortable means, with a handful of employees assisting beyond those of the immediate family. He is a pragmatic man who prefers to bury his feelings within busy work. Now that he is aging, he misses the livelihood of his home and hopes one of his sons will settle in to continue the family business and bring along a host of grandchildren.

NPC Name: Sefan “Fane” Dalakis
Relation to PC: Uncle
NPC Location: Hazlan, Monastery of the Iron Path
Describe the NPC:
A former trader, he found faith in the Lawgiver. He now serves as a Kunduktør and is bound by an oath of silence. He is a stern man, devout in his faith after the earlier unfaithfulness of his wife who had absconded with her lover some several years prior. He is missing his left eye though he has never shared the story of how this occurred.

He raised Rahela after the passing of her mother where Simon could not afford to take time from the business to tend to the youngest child.

NPC Name: Emilian "Emi" Dalakis
Relation to PC: Oldest Brother
NPC Location: Varies
Describe the NPC:
A man in his early forties, he oversees the mercantile endeavors of the Dalakis family. He engages in the trade of textiles from Borca to Hazlan, often away several months out of the year. He prefers to winter in Krezk with his family when the passes become impassable, finding the town to be far more entertaining than Immol. He enjoys the thrill of a good negotiation.

There are two other brothers older than Rahela, Marin and Matei. They assist with the family business though the brothers are wont to complain about the oppressive taxes of the Count while visiting the likes of Levkarest. Each of the brothers has a family and children of their own, a generous number as Barovian families are known to have. The brothers are ages 36, 38, and 41 respectively. There is a wide range of expanded family members but for the most part, they do not have much contact with Rahela after she became an Amanar.

[OccamsClub]

Tazmir Rodikavich

NPC Name: Rodika von Ivlis
Relation to PC: Mother
NPC Location: Dilapidated peasant house on farmlands between Berez and Vallaki.
Describe the NPC: Currently suffering severely with addiction to opiates, which has ruined her and her sons livelihoods. A meek but caring woman of meagre livestyle and some experience as a servant in a more noble house, but whose untreated addiction has turned her into a truly toxic, often violent, and desperate individual. Has previously turned to prostitution to fund her addiction previously, but can no longer solicit such work due to her deteriorating condition.

Father remains unknown. Extended family have disowned Rodika and her bastard son.