PQ NPCs

Only named NPCs are listed in this paste. Note that some characters are associated with multiple factions. These categories above the dotted line contain the NPCs most relevant to the current state of the quest. Everything below the dotted line is not as relevant in the current arcs and can be disregarded until they are brought up again.

Crew of The Beesting (Captain: Bee Holder)
A group of pirates out for plunder and adventure, like many others. In addition to these named characters, there are about sixteen mooks who keep things tidy around the ship.
Captain Bee Holder (F Pegasus, yellow coat with black mane) - The Captain of the Beesting, and an old pirate. She led the crew on an expedition to the Ribcage with a magical map that revealed its location. She is a former inhabitant of Kaco Island, where she lived with an adopted family of Beeponies, but spent most of her youth among the thieves and scum of Aristar. Highly knowledgeable, yet also superstitious.
Bent Scales (F Dragon, purple scales) - The singer of the Beesting and Bee Holder's oldest crewmate. Very sassy and skilled in keeping the crew in line.
Kling-Klang (M Donkey, gray coat with light brown mane) - The ship's cook and resident cynic.
Cane Shuga (M Earth Pony, black coat with light yellow mane) - The ship's navigator. He is very temperamental and loves to gamble.
Sickly Sweet (M Unicorn, light red coat with white mane) - The ship's doctor.
Chiu (F Unicorn, tan coat with black mane) - A spellcaster and former Equestrian military trainer who can manipulate shadows to serve as her bodyguards or as physical structures such as bridges and walls.
Etch (M Donkey, red coat with short, grey mane) - A smith who was purchased from Mori, a dragon who collects people.
Prisma (F Chicken, the size of an alicorn princess, with a peacock's colors) - A very large chicken and the Accompass of the Beesting.
Zerk (M Buffalo, blue coat), Paraiba (F Crystal Pony, white coat, teal mane) and Squatz (M Earth pony, small in size with a light blue coat and dark blue mane) - A trio of thieves who joined the Beesting unofficially in their quest to rob the Crimson King of his wealth.
Roger - (M Fish) Cerulean's pet remora.

Crew of the Secret Assassins (Captain: Cutlass)
This is a ship given to Cutlass by the Gates of Justice, crewed by the following NPCs and about twenty mooks. Cutlass had been captured by the Gates of Justice, but convinced them to let her free on a few conditions. She was to travel into the Ribcage with a group of assassins. Once inside, the assassins would hunt down various criminals who had escaped into the Ribcage, while Cutlass was free to plunder and loot all she liked.
Miss Sunshine (F Unicorn) - A maid who keeps the ship tidy, and the little sister of one of the leaders of the Gates of Justice.
Ossie (F Zebra) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice who has appointed herself Cutlass' bodyguard.
Sparkler (F Pegasus) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice who can brew a mean poison.
Droplet (M Unicorn) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice who likes to talk about how he's an assassin to everyone he meets.
Colobok (M Donkey) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice who despises killing and will often seek reasons not to kill his target.
Godot (M Griffon) - A doctor from an island on the Ribcage who was captured by the Gates of Justice. He dislikes talking about the past, and is rumored to be a mass murderer.
Schnitzel (M Diamond Dog) - A pathological liar and a treasure hunter.
Captain Plague (M Diamond Dog) - The former leader of the Fruitflies, a rival pirate crew. He was captured by the Gates of Justice at the same time that Cutlass was, but was released along with her. He agreed to work for Cutlass until he was able to meet up with his own crew; before his capture, he ordered them to go to the Ribcage without him.
Puddin Tame (M Minotaur) - A pirate trapped on Kaco Island after losing contact with his crew.
Make Believe (M Unicorn) - A mute young pony who wanted to join Cutlass's crew. Everyone who knew him prior to his joining was deathly terrified of him.

The Crimson King
The Purple Piper (F Demon Unicorn) - A flute-playing demon.
The Princess of Embers (F Demon) - The daughter of the Crimson King. She is continually in search of a suitor to marry, and her searches and subsequent weddings often leave the whole Ribcage in a state of upheaval and turmoil.
The Pattern Juggler (M Demon Unicorn) - A demon who is on tour with his carnival troupe, performing in various cities around the Ribcage. He fights with dice that produce various effects upon roll, but often cheats and changes results he doesn't like.
Perfect Pair (M Demon) - The head clown of the Pattern Juggler's troupe.
Stone Cold Classic (M Demon Griffon) - A genie in service of the Crimson King, and who was temporarily revered as a god by the Gusties. He must grant ten thousand wishes in order to be released from Tartarus. He is currently on parole, and his parole officer is the Crimson King.
The Crimson King (M Demon) - A demon who accrues power through the amassing of wealth. He is known to stick his fingers in political matters on various islands to make sure that things always turn out in his favor and in the favor of his businesses.

The Bee Queens
These are the current rulers of Kaco Island. They are the descendants of the beeponies who were violently driven away from the island many decades ago by a portion of the native population, and have returned to conquer the island back from its current rulers. The key to their current takeover is the Hunt. The Hunt is a complex system of Aura abilities that enables the queens to kill with ease. First, part of a victim's Aura is captured when they are stung by special bees imbued with Queen Toko's power. That bit of Aura is then taken to the Hunting Grounds an Aura Plane maintained by Queen Hurscurs. There, Queen Qaromarrow makes a game of hunting it down. When she finds it, she can capture it and siphon the victim's life-force from afar by draining their Aura.
Queen Qaromarrow - The eldest of the Bee Queens.
Queen Hurscurs - The second oldest Queen.
Queen Toko - The youngest Queen.
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The Gates of Justice
The Gates of Justice are an international bounty-hunting organization operating under authority granted to them a treaty signed by most of the world's nations. By the mandates of the treaty, they are allowed to enter almost any jurisdiction to hunt down criminals, though they generally stick to the world's most notorious murderers, plunderers and warlords. Though they have branches operating worldwide, most of their resources go into hunting those who attempt to escape to the seas.
Ossie
Sparkler
Droplet
Colobok
Miss Sunshine
Schwartzwelt (M Earth Pony) - A leader of the Gates of Justice.
Devotchka (F Pegasus) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice.
Balalaika (F Unicorn) - An assassin with the Gates of Justice. She captured Cutlass while hunting for Captain Plague.

The Fruitflies (Captain: Plague)
Captain Plague
Deelzang

Windy Island
Windy Island is owned by two tribes of Breezies, the Misties and the Gusties, with each tribe laying claim to one half of the island. Each tribe believes that it is the true descendant of the Windies, an ancient ancestral race, and that the other tribe is some kind of devil-spawn from the spirit world. In reality, both tribes are the result of a curse that the Crimson King, a powerful demon, put on the Windy Tribe, as revenge for defeating him when he tried to capture them to use as slave labor for his businesses. The curse compels the tribes to fight one another until one is exterminated, and if it is not fulfilled, then both tribes will die. The leaders of the Gusties and Windies have tasked the party to convince or force the Crimson King to lift their curse.

Windy Island - Gusties
Elder Guts and Glory - The leader of the Gusties.
Left and Right - A pair of irreverent faces carved into a stone wall, serving as the haughty, mocking guardians of a trial in a cave on Windy Island.
Stone Cold Classic - A genie in service of the Crimson King, and who was temporarily revered as a god by the Gusties. He must grant ten thousand wishes in order to be released from Tartarus. He is currently on parole, and his parole officer is the Crimson King.

Windy Island - Misties
Elder Peace and Quiet - The leader of the Misties.

The Ancient Mareiner (Captain: Fettuccine)
Captain Fettuccine (M Minotaur, ghostly in appearance, with a battered, corpse-like body) - He leads the Ancient Mareiner across the bottom of the sea with a crew of zombies and sahagin, sinking ships and feasting on the crews.

The Blackbarrel Pirates
They are a pirate crew, populated by diamond dogs and monkeys, also on the hunt for the Ribcage. They were not interacted with much by the party when they met on Windy Island. They travel by submarine.