NPCs of the Couatlán

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Other: Notes Non-Player Characters of the Couatlán

Every non-player character of note within the Couatlán campaign is shown below. The NPC's are organized into coherent groups relating to the structure of the campaign. Please note that all spoiler buttons are meant to hide information about the NPC that the PCs should not yet know (unless otherwise noted).

Lieutenants of the Couatlán
Six "lieutenants" command the Couatlán, if you could call it that. While there is one true leader of the Couatlán, Eztli, she and her five lieutenants guide Couatlán overall by giving out missions to its members acts as nodes of wisdom and mastery in their respective fields.

Eztli

 * Specialization: Combat/Tactics
 * Female Elf (Huastac)
 * Eztli is the de facto leader of the Couatlán.
 * At 500 years old, Eztli is the sister of the elder of the Huastac, and claims to have seen Moztla, the Couatl of the Future who takes on the form of a gargantuan jaguar.
 * Eztli is stern, serious, honest, and sincere. She cares about the region as a whole more than just her own tribe.
 * She wears a massive jaguar-themed headdress, jaguar-reedwood mail and wields a great macuahuitl. She has intricate facial paint and scarification along her flesh, and wears bone jewelry in her ears, eyebrows, nose and lips. Her jet black hair is banded upward and back into a hardened dreadlock pattern.

Yolotli


Eztli's jaguar animal companion. Absolutely loyal to her.

Tlatilo

 * Specialization: Stealth/Infiltration
 * Male Elf (Solmec)
 * Tlatilo covers himself in tribal paints, across his face and body, that help him blend into the jungle environment.
 * 300 years old, Tlatilo is quiet, shy. He is a man of few words, and when he does speak, he is straight and to-the-point. He's non-social and has no sense of humor whatsoever. However, his knowledge of the ways of stealth is unmatched.
 * It's hard to get much information out of him, but he is a long-time friend of Eztli and therefore has his place as her lieutenant.
 * His parents, Cactimoya and Nel, are the leading elders of the Solmec, and sent him to the Couatlán to teach others of the Solmec ways of stealth.

Xehsamaal
(The following information is hidden from players of the Couatlán.)
 * Specialization: Poison/Trapping
 * Male Hueyi (Kaxtik)
 * At 100 years old, Xehsemaal is overconfident, sly, and devoid of empathy. He sees the Couatlán as an opportunity to learn more, meet new people, and have an excuse to kill others with little penalty.
 * His body is covered in tribal tattoos and patterned implants. He is tall and lean.
 * He has unique Kaxtik tribal markings, which include intricate burn marks and branding patterns along his arms and chest, though his face is unmarked.
 * His bonds to his family and tribe are nearly nonexistent, but his isn't disloyal to them either. They are merely the people who raised him and taught him what he knows.

Anquemolo
(The following information is hidden from players of the Couatlán.)
 * Specialization: Hunting/Tracking
 * Male Hueyi (Yichpahal)
 * At 400 years old, Anquemolo is a huge, tall, and barrel-chested hueyi. He is very muscular and is faster than he looks.
 * Anquemolo is larger than life, boisterous and good-natured. He is loud in social situations but becomes deadly quiet and serious when hunting and tracking when he needs to be.
 * He is adorned with Yichpahal tribal paints, similar to the coastal Ilhuicaatl tribes.
 * Despite his good nature, Anquemolo has seen the worst in the Akkens and has had many friends and family captured, tortured, and/or killed, including his four sons.

Ta'akik
(The following information is hidden from players of the Couatlán.)
 * Specialization: Informants/Spies
 * Male Hueyi (Yichpahal)
 * Ta'akik is incredibly young for his position within the Couatlán. At 25 years, he has a natural talent for deception.
 * Most comfortable in the skin of an Akken, Ta'akik is a trickster, jokester, and is constantly swapping forms several times a day while nobody is looking, pretending to be others and consistently getting himself into trouble.
 * Despite his serious lack of professionalism, Ta'akik is very good at lying to others and has a wealth of information regarding the Akkens, their culture, and how they think.
 * His parents were killed in the first wave 20 years ago, and Ta'akik found it best to hide among the fairskins when he could. Almost his whole life has been defined by the occupation of the Akkens, and he struggles between knowing who they are and seeing both good and bad qualities of both sides.

Teoquemitl
(The following information is hidden from players of the Couatlán.)
 * Specialization: Teotl Speaker/Primal Magic
 * Female Elf (Teotlihuacan)
 * Teoquemitl was recently the elder of the highly spiritual Teotlihuacan. At 700 years old, she is truly venerable, and is a well of natural wisdom and is in constant commune with the forces of Teotl.
 * She is incredibly elderly, wrinkly and thin. Both her ears have been mutilated, and she has vicious scars down her back. She is missing her right arm, and her other is usually holding a gnarled branch from an ancient ceiba tree, covered in spines.
 * She has left her younger brother Toctli in charge of the Teotlihuacan, faithful in his capabilities to lead the tribe.
 *  While she says she has faith in Toctli's leadership ability, she still feels like he might not be up to the task, and that she is putting her tribe's safety on the line in a selfish quest for personal glory.
 * She plays the wise elder well, but she secretly harbors deep-sseded insecurities about her being one with Teotl, and sometimes feels as though she's a fraud.

Warriors of the Couatlán
There are dozens of volunteers warriors within the Couatlán who come from all walks of life and from every known tribe within eastern Ro'thas. Some only pop in and out of the Couatlán when it suits them, while others dedicate all of their time in the efforts to push the organization's agenda.

Heroes of the Couatlán
Some warriors within the Couatlán stand out above the others. The list below details all player characters within the campaign.
 * Atrox
 * Chakax
 * Chimalli
 * Coyo
 * Cuauhtémoc
 * Jahan
 * Kntanta
 * Nahuatl
 * N'olvidar
 * Raktajino
 * Riclamin
 * Sisava
 * Tannin
 * Tzakaw
 * Tzultacaj
 * Whisper
 * Yelcan

Calatlo

 * Male Elf (Solmec)
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 1: "Red River Outpost"
 * Experienced scout who was one of the first members of the Couatlán.
 * Captured by the Akkens during a scouting mission with Icuahca.
 * Body was found at the Red River Outpost, tortured, mutilated and subsequently burned at the stake. (now dead)

Icuahca

 * Male Elf (Cuanmitzli)
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 1: "Red River Outpost"
 * Savage scout, one of the first members of the Couatlán.
 * Escaped capture attempt by the Akkens but took an arrow to the leg. Managed to get back to the Couatlán to tell about his partner Calatlo who didn't escape.

Cuauhtli Tribespeople
The fierce Cuauhtli employ aggression in most of their foreign exchanges, and the swift and savage fighting prowess of their eagle warriors is something to fear and behold.

Quetzal

 * Male Elf
 * Sessions Encountered: None, only mentioned in downtime activities.
 * The elder of the Cuauhtli, Quetzal has tattoos covering his chest and arms that depict both eagles and couatls merging as one. He gets regular updates on the progress made by Cuauhtémoc within the Couatlán.

Teotlihuacan Tribespeople
The wise and enigmatic Teotlihuacan elves are masters of the ways of Teotl and have a strong relationship with the Hueyi peoples.

Toctli

 * Male Elf
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * The younger brother to the elder Teoquemitl. While Teoquemitl is serving as a leader of the Couatlán, Toctli is serving as the temporary cheif of the Teotlihuacan in her absence.
 * Husband to.
 * Infant daughter was kidnapped by Nana Xoxoh and returned by warriors of the Couatlán days later.

Cictlamina

 * Female Elf
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Wife to Toctli.
 * Infant daughter was kidnapped by Nana Xoxoh, Cictlamina went into a paralytic coma from grief.
 * Daughter was returned by warriors of the Couatlán days later.

Ollin

 * Male Elf child, approx. 12 years old
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Child that plays stick ball with others in the central courtyard of Teotepec, now called Coyoball.
 * Claims to have seen the young Xoxoh talking a lot with Ichtaca.
 * Tagged along with the group, following Xoxoh's tracks to her marshy den.
 * Given a quarterstaff and a great story by the end of it, leaving unscathed.

Ichtaca

 * Male Elf child, approx. 14 years old
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Child that plays stick ball with others in the central courtyard of Teotepec, now called Coyoball. Ichtaca is easily the star player.
 * Encountered the teenage Xoxoh several times in the past few years. Always thought she was a nice lady who took a special interest in the little girls of their group.

The Lost Children

 * All female Elves
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Names forgotten and given numbers by Nana Xoxoh: 0, 2, 4, 7, 7, 10 and 12.
 * Children taken by Xoxoh over several years into an hypnotic, indentured servitude of sorts. They all swore loyalty to Xoxoh until she was killed. They have since been returned to their families in Teotepec, except for 12, who was taken into the care of the lizardfolk shaman Chakax.

0

 * Female Elf, infant
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Infant unnamed daughter of Toctli and Cictlamina.
 * Stolen by the hag Nana Xoxoh but rescued days later and returned to parents.

12

 * Female Elf, 12 years old
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * 12-year-old who was captured and enslaved by Nana Xoxoh for several years.
 * After being rescued by members of the Couatlán, was taken into the custody of Chakax.

Conquistadia
Members of the foreign invaders, including Humans, Zakedaemoni, Hobgoblins, Dwarves, Dragonborn and the very rare Kobolds, all part of the Grand Word of El and the Akkenbar Empire's far-reaching goal of world domination in concordance with El's demands.

Deyego
(The following information is hidden from the players of the Couatlán)
 * Male Human
 * Sessions Encountered: None.
 * General Deyego et Fer-ald, supreme leader of the Conquistadia and answers only to the Emperor and El.
 * Stationed in Tuk-ruthwoad.

Outsiders
All other individuals who do not belong to any particular tribe or organization.

Xoxoh

 * Green Hag
 * Sessions Encountered: Call of the Couatls: Mission 3: "Hunting the Hueliloc Hag"
 * Ancient hag living two days travel outside the Teotlihuacan capital city of Teotepec in a cursed marsh. Known as "Nana Xoxoh" in the scary stories that the Teotlihuacan tell their children.
 * Periodically disguised herself as a beautiful teenage girl, snuck into Teotepec and played with the kids, encouraging them to do naughty things -- lie, steal, hurt others.
 * Each venture into the city, she seduced and brought back one adolescent girl back with her, magically enslaving her and making her work in her marsh.
 * After stealing 0, investigators from the Couatlán found her home, killed her and rescued her stolen and enslaved children. (now dead)

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