Quick facts

Covers: Everyone The FAM met or heard of in Coghaven · Sessions: 73–80

A roster of the people of Coghaven, the gnome city in The Underdark. Characters with their own pages are linked.

The Black Parade

NameWho they areStatus
Gen WayBlack Parade fighter, Goric’s sister and Wilbur’s auntAlive
GoricBlack Parade fighter and Wilbur’s birth father; knew Wilbur as Cedric. Captured on a raid, taken to the forge, and found as the shriveled gnome in Wheelo’s “expired” vatDead (found S78)
OttoGoric’s comrade who hid for months in the catacombsAlive
Bram BriarProposed going straight for the Chancellor’s officeKilled during the distraction (S79)
Rya ToranBlack Parade fighterKilled during the distraction (S79)
Mekel WayBlack Parade fighterKilled during the distraction (S79)
Franco YeroBlack Parade fighter; died in Gen’s armsKilled during the distraction (S79)

The government and the machine

NameWho they areStatus
The five foundersDreamed up the Engine That Provides; honored with a statueUnknown
Chancellor Fenwick AnsibleChancellor of Coghaven, figurehead of the machine’s ruleDead; body in Wilbur’s bag of holding
Ansible’s councilGnomes of the Rotunda who scattered when Ellery threw a smoke device into their chamberUnknown
Wiz TillywigLiaison for visitors; gave the party the tourUnknown
Dr. WheeloBrain-in-a-vat scientist who took personal control of the cityDead (S78)
Dr. KochinWheelo’s assistant; gnome scientist in a lab coat who bluffed a dead man’s switch and a bomb in Masha’s headSealed in Cabba’s old pod
The CabbAutomatonWheelo’s metal copy of Cabba, with spiky hair and a tailDeactivated; claimed by the party

Prisoners freed from the vats

NameWho they are
CabbaSaiyan; the machine’s main power source
MashaFire genasi sorcerer of The Free Pour
Elara SunshadowBran’s long-lost companion, presumed dead since the Obsidian Spire
A mermaidOne of the survivors not marked “expired”

Others

  • The gnome workers, hundreds of thousands of them, forced to labor in Manufacturing and across the city. Wilbur declared their independence day.
  • The Gnoloo, a visitor who came to collect a crate for The Mistress.

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