Travia is held in very high regard in the cold north west where Thorwaler live, even though most of the twelvegods do not find many...

As a stage for a number of NPCs from our #NPCwednesdays series, Honeyngton is a mid sized city with 2800 inhabitants located in the...

Geppert Rodiak is the other Lieutenant the cultist cell does have. Geppert is more cunning than Morena, while physically weaker. Baltram...

Morena Horger is one of the two lieutenants Baltram Gorbas (#13) has in his cell of Children of the Rat cultists. She had some previous...

A counterpart to the twelvegods is the thirteenth god, also know as the Nameless One, who is also called by some the Rat Child. We...

It's only fitting that the twelfth NPC is a blessed one of the twelvegods. Praios is the leader of the pantheon of the twelvegods and his...

Alrico is a freelance spy, working in the Horasian Empire. Besides hiding his true identity he is also hiding his magical abilities, ...

Some Background When running The Dark Eye, one of my players has made a half elf mercenary that prefers to work through stealth, he's...

Time for another villain: While his teacher Magister Ophenos uses the image as evil black mage just to scare the locals away to leave him...

Guild Mages are a type of character found often in a group of heroes (I think it has been years since I played in a group that didn't...

Mercenaries can be hired by anyone with enough money, be that heroes in need of support or villains in need of protection from said...

Valeria Delazar, as a witch, was missing a quite important aspect: her familiar. Familiars can be just a bit of flavour or almost a...

In a way Travia represents a the ideal some of the twelvegods protect through their domains. How could you feel safe in your home if...

Knight of the Order of the black Thistle The Order of the black Thistle was founded by the noble House Fenwasian in the Middenrealm...

Noble from Albernia Albernia is rich in myths and legends, in particular regarding fairies. And quite a lot of those stories are true....

Efferd might seem clear cut, he is the god of the seas after all. In reality it's not exactly just as simple as that. Today I'd like to...

Alrik, the moody guard. After I mentioned him in my first article https://thedarkeyeblog.wixsite.com/thedarkeyeblog/post/npcs-in-tde I...

So last time I talked about TDE mechanics, I talked about how it does an excellent job of supporting games that are not combat focused,...

Rashid Ben Omar, the desert guide Traveling through the Khôm desert, even on one of the more frequented caravan routes is a dangerous...

I read fpruller's great article about Rondra, and thought instead of commenting I might write this instead. The world of The Dark Eye,...