Part III - The Itinerant NPCs

Basically all of these were ripped wholesale from preexisting books and other media. See if you can spot them!

1. Mr. Hipólito Gastão Barbosa Salgado (Gastão Barbosa) and Alexandre Prudêncio Morais d'Alencar (Alexandre Morais), one stupid, the other cruel. Both dandies who wander around to find parties they weren't invited to. Fleas who inhabit richer and dumber people. They speak very good French and try to hide their Portuguese ancestry.
   • If they meet Oquendo, they'll take advantage of him for a while and abscond with a lot of money.
2. The Friends
   • D. Alejandro Aarón Oquendo. Naïve, kind-hearted, socially awkward, strong as a bull. Massively rich with the recent passing of his father. He's recently had a duel with Hendrik over his "wife", Marta Sommer, and is wandering Europe in moral and spiritual confusion. He's been looking into magic.
     • If he comes across Hendrik again, they might fight again, and he may not survive.
     • If he comes across Marta Sommer without having become a Freemason or had some sort of spiritual awakening, he'll reject her once again.
     • If he spends time with Emilia Mendel they'll become close friends, despite her infatuation with Karl Sommer. They can only see themselves as lovers if Vitaliy is out of the picture.
     • If he comes across Percival St. John he might become a magician.
   • Vitaliy Semyonovich Popov. Sometimes travels with Oquendo. Brave, had an epiphany while on the ground in a Crimean Battle 7 years ago and has since changed a lot. Has a 7 year old son but is a widower. Is touring Europe on a sabbatical year because his father told him to wait before marrying his much younger love interest Emilia Mendel.
3. The Sommer Siblings: Marta and Karl Sommer. The sister is rumoured to have an affair with Hendrik and her brother. Beautiful and self-serving, attracted to strength. Technically Oquendo's wife, but won't let that stop her. The brother is handsome, irresponsible, hedonistic. A dumber version of Hendrik who can't fight for shit. Technically married to a Polish woman, but wants Emilia Mendel. They're both on the Grand Tour out of Romantic hedonism and bon vivance, constantly making up relatives to visit.
   • If they spend time with Emilia Mendel, she'll get infatuated and write for Vitaliy's Sister to break off the engagement, and will elope if not stopped.
4. The Troublemakers
   • Hendrik Leonard Egger, North German. A steely-eyed killer and deadly shooter. Killed many brothers, is entirely unrepentant. Amoral, rich, devil with a pistol, demon with a tongue. Perfect man for the current times. Is on the Grand Tour with Julius Mendel and Gustav mostly as a troublemakers, but also because they're leeches. Hates Oquendo extremely for shooting him, will pick fights with his friends.
   • Julius Mendel, North German. An officer in the army, the beloved eldest son of the family. Refuses to use his family name to further his career. Friend of Hendrik's and Gustav's.
     • If he comes across Yaroslava Popov, they'll become infatuated and might marry.
     • If he stays with Hendrik or another rapscallion, he'll lose all his money in cards.
   • Gustav Albrecht, a Bavarian. A fallen young gentleman driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors. Rumoured to have an affair with Marta Sommer.
5. Bonaventura Cosmo Floriano Rais Sinagra (Bonaventura Sinagra) and his disciple Valente Teodosio Roma Airò (Valente Roma), both from Milan. The Nihilists / Positivists who claim to not recognize any authority. The first is a student of medicine and the other a noble. They've graduated recently and went on the Grand Tour before returning home. They're both magicians but treat is an advanced science, preferring to call it "alchemy".
   • If they spend some time close to Anna and Katya¹, Valente Roma will fall in love with Anna, she won't even notice and will fall in love with Bonaventura Sinagra, and then Valente will fall in love with Katya.
   • They'll likely hang around for a while, Bonaventura Sinagra with make a declaration of love, Anna won't correspond, then they'll travel back to Bonaventura's parents. They'll stay there for like a week, then go back to Valente Roma's family. There will be the duel, he'll come back home, and die.
   • Valente will stop wandering and marry Katya and proceed Fathers and Sons from there.
6. Percival St. John, British. A gentleman turned magician travelling Europe in search of magical secrets. Very depressed because his wife has supposedly died recently (she's actually been stolen away by a Fairy). Very Romantic.
7. Lydia Teufel and Hans Barnabas Sauber, both Swiss. Basically the opposite of Valente and Bonaventura: a rich young man and woman, childhood friends, but Lydia is entirely disillusioned with modernity, and Hans comes from the provinces where she owns an estate. Very modern, and technically a magician too, but deep in anhedonia. Currently touring Europe at the behest of the friend from the provinces.
   • Might actually find common ground with Oquendo and find something interesting in one another.
8. Milorad Marinović, Croatian. A taciturn trans man, who cross-dressed to go fight in the Napoleonic Wars ², ended up enjoying to be seen as a man, but now lives with a guilty conscience over having deserted her platoon during Waterloo. He travels Europe trying to find it in himself to go back to Vesna in the Hotel Adriano.
   • Basically, he only needs someone to reassure him and to talk some sense into him. He's too caught up in being a Romantic that he forgets that Vesna does love him as he is.
9. The Lady Saint-Just, Marie Antoinette de Saint-Just, French, 33 (b. 1829). A trans woman. She was a young man who had everything taken away from 'him'. Bélanger was jealous of his promotion, Francesc was jealous of his wife Maria Agramunt, and they both accuse him of being a revolutionary during the revolutions of 1848. The judge acquiesces because of fear and other reasons. He's sentenced to death but an innocent man dies in his stead, he flees the city and basically steals the personality of a rich woman he finds dead on the side. She ends up enjoying this change and identifies as such. Now, after 11 years in prison and 4 getting rich, she's roaming Europe and fuming, multiplying her fortune and basically training to destroy the lives of those who wronged her.
   • She's also followed by her Italian servant, Benedetto, who has a vendetta against Gaspard Leclair because he knows of the son he buried, Bertuccio, who's now a criminal.
10. Anthony Thrupp, "John Octavius", Thomas Myers' man of business, and an Englishman. A violent-looking, lean and powerful man of 30 or so who's out to get books for Myers, mostly by underhanded means. He'll sound out information mostly through servants and eavesdropping, and then try to steal stuff.
    • When he arrives at a city, it'll take him a month to locate a book. Thomas Myers will then try to buy it over 2 months; there's 1 in 6 chances of it succeeding, raising or lowering it accordingly. If negotiations fall through, John will move to a new city. If the book is particularly tasty (making a good hand), John will try to steal it.
11. The Campbell Brothers. A duo of brothers from Winchester, in England, who fancy themselves paranormal investigators and theoretical (and also experimental) magicians.

Scattered Thoughts

These bullet points are just stuff I had thought about but hadn't actually fleshed out.

• a fucking Beast like beauty and the beast who has been transformed and now entertains magicians who can transform him back, but eats them if they can't Rolled in the Baltics, maybe put him in the surrounds of Riga but pretty far away
• vampire who lived way too much and hates humans and how nothing is getting better Rolled Central Italian, either Firenze or Roma nodes, probably in the mountains or the coast of the Adriatic
• Annabel and Marisol: Will compete with each other to see who can romance the hottest person in the group first. They're just out for sport, probably a random encounter too.
• Behiye bint Kasim: A bandit who terrorizes the route between Berlin and Munich. She's a magician who was seduced by a life of adventuring. She's not really in it just for the money, she has interests in magic, but adventure calls to her.
  • Anyone who ingratiates themselves with her will be given a Lapis Eye to be passed along to her former teacher, the Magician of Istanbul.
• The Magician of Istanbul: Anyone who goes to Istanbul may meet a detached and distant magician.
  • Giving him the Lapis Eye will prompt him to explain his shared history with Behiye and the significance of the eye, being the eye of his automaton. He muses that Kasim returns the pieces to him when she can because she hopes that returning one 'child' to him could help him with the loss of another one- her.
  • As a reward for the delivery of the Eye, he will offer 3k pounds, which you can either accept or refuse. Should he refuse he will be given a Medallion instead, proving that you've done a great service.
• Elsa Ekéus: The owner of the ship chartered between Stockholm and Berlin...? Or Hamburg I guess. A grandmother, mother, and daughter own it, working the Baltic ferry. The youngest is wistful and looks dreamy, but is actually very resourceful.
• Roza: On the train from Moscow to Germany, a young Russian woman might confide in a character that she's to marry a German tycoon, but she's met a peasant lad in the back of the train and loves him very dearly. Her mother will try to lock her away, knowing this is nonsense.