Aberforth Blackthorn

• Archdruid of the old orders
• "There used to be seven of us, now only three remain. Aberforth and I never really saw eye to eye, but I'm big enough now to admit he had strengths I'll never match"

Tobin Dane

• Carriage Man
• Drives the party into town

Xanthe Brimthistle

• A Halfling diviner
• Rarely wrong about anything and won't admit when she is
• Often does small things to push others out of the realm of harm, though she mostly keeps her face buried in her many tomes
• Will not help the party fight anything though will investigate mysteries and stumble into trouble
• She can see other's fates easier than she can see her own- its a blind spot

Gibson the barkeep

• Will aid the party if asked, and will discover his background if forced or knocked into the water
• Will give party any local lore or directions needed including providing rooms above the tavern for the night

Associated others

• Paloma the barmaid
• Salty John - the drunk who tells too many fish tales
• Darby, Claypool, and Sumner the old codgers and bar constants

The Professor Alvadine Bessemer

• Semi-reclusive academic (neutral evil)
• Scholar of antiquity and all around trove of ancient knowledge
• More concerned with studying the world than the lives of the people in it
• Sten the golem

Cob The Old Mariner

• Perpetually out on a bench staring out over the water on the wharf
• An old beagle (sophie) stays loyally at his feet
• He is set up to be fishing though he has no bait
• He never seems to sleep and will tell of anything weird on the docks from the night before

Jacobin Wright

• Semi-local merchant who sells the statue to the professor
• Does stock and trade in some illicit goods
• Gone longer than usual recently

Tom Nerris

• Local with a fish-tale
• Something grabbed him by the ankle and pulled him into the water while he was unloading his fishing cache down on the east docks two nights back
• Nobody believes that he saw eyes in the dark

Liza Crane

• Sells fish in the fish market
• Something has been stealing out of her stock but it wasn't paulie the neighbor boy like she first thought
• She catches a glimpse of something waddling down the alleyway by her stall, and it disappears into the fog - weren't no man like ever I seen em

The smuggler's gang

• Big Erlo is the large tough goon-esque leader of the local smuggling gang- his decision to do "some excavatin' for development" is what sparks the initial quakes
• Other members of the gang include Oats, Hot Charlie, and Thimble
• Individually they don't seem so hard to fight but more seem to appear out of the cracks and back alleyways when needed to be intimidating
• Sammy Three Knives is also a regular but has gone missing- will have been killed by the Gogglers

The Gogglers

• An ancient race of fish-people, they have recently found a path to the surface after a period of seismic acitvity
• Drawn to the light of the moon after an eternity in undersea exile they rise to the surface at night and begin to lay clutches of eggs in the sewers and secret tunnels beneath the town
• They have also taken to murdering some of the locals to build better nests
• People have trouble remembering properly what they saw- most early reports are dismissed as drunken fantasy or specters in the mist
• If left unchecked they will complete their ritual and bring forth a new elder god
• If murdered they give rise to smaller brief manifestations of demigods resembling the players until they summon forth a god who sinks into the bay at the end of the encounter