Characters
From Hayashi Park Potterverse for 5th ed. Dungeons and Dragons (5e)
Contents
- 1 Player Characters
- 2 NPCs
- 2.1 Albus Dumbledore
- 2.2 Chief Wawanotewat
- 2.3 Clem "Junior" McHaverstad
- 2.4 Cormac O’Brien
- 2.5 The Dark Wizard
- 2.6 Ezmerelda d'Avenir
- 2.7 Gellert Grindelwald
- 2.8 Hector Fawley
- 2.9 Ireena
- 2.10 Izek Strazni
- 2.11 Percival Graves
- 2.12 Queenie Goldstein
- 2.13 Tina Goldstein [Scamander]
- 2.14 Arcturus Black
- 2.15 Lysandra Yaxley
- 2.16 Belvina Black
- 2.17 Herbert Burke
- 2.18 Phineas Black
- 2.19 Sirius Black (the elder)
- 2.20 Hesper Gamp
- 2.21 Cygnus Black
- 2.22 North American Wandmakers
- 3 Sources
Player Characters
NPCs
Albus Dumbledore
‘“But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog Cards.”’ Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Chief Wawanotewat
Warrior chief descendant of Elder Wawanotewat, doesn't prefer the European-settled muggles living nearby.
Clem "Junior" McHaverstad
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Cormac O’Brien
Pukwudgie first year, introduces himself to PCs at Bellows Pipe the first night at Ilvermorny after the sorting ceremony
The Dark Wizard
The Dark Wizard is definitely a lawful individual. He has a zero tolerance policy for dishonesty and banditry. When he first took Barovia, he beheaded every single Burgomaster in the valley because they were all skimming the taxes. Even after he became a vampire, he would actively hunt and slaughter those who violated his laws. In his own words: "those who broke my laws rarely got the chance to repeat the offense." (Source)
The Dark Wizard is a creature of his word. If you can extract an actual promise from him, you can expect him to keep it. (Source)
He has little patience for incompetence and stupidity. (Source)
The Dark Wizard has a sense of humor, it's occasionally a very black sense of humor, but he has it. (Source)
The Dark Wizard is actually somewhat fond of the creatures he controls...wolves and bats get pets from him when he calls them outside of combat. (Source)
If The Dark Wizard needs to travel, he'll load a coffin into a coach so he has a handy place to sleep if he's out too long. During the day, the coach will be guarded by a veritable horde of wolves and anything else he deems necessary. (Source)
The Dark Wizard can be extremely cruel when it comes to taking revenge...the man responsible for the rebellion that happened at the same time he was turned into a vampire was later hunted down, drained dry, then left in a sealed stone crypt to animate as a Vampire Spawn...then was left there to starve to death from lack of blood over the course of about a month. Lady Fiona Wachter's ancestor was present for this, and visited that crypt to listen to the man/vampire spawn trying to get out and suffering for the entire time it took him to die (he was responsible for the death of her parents as well). (Source)
The Dark Wizard has a lingering tolerance for servants of the Morninglord, because a confidant of his was a priestess of that faith before he 'died.' He lets the religion continue to exist in his lands out of respect for her. (Source)
The Dark Wizard does NOT need an invitation to enter a house that is within his domain...as Lord of Barovia, he owns the entire Baratok Valley, so every house within it technically belongs to him. He may, however, pretend that he needs an invitation. (Source)
The Dark Wizard is extremely interested in magical lore of all sorts. He's constantly looking for magical means by which he can secure Tatyana and escape the mists. The lure of spellbooks and other pieces of arcane lore may be sufficient to lure him somewhere. (Source)
Ezmerelda d'Avenir
Gellert Grindelwald
One-time friend and more of Albus Dumbledore. Seeks power, disdains Muggles. Has begun a murderous spree across northern and central Europe at the time this campaign begins (1925ish) 
Hector Fawley
British Minister of Magic in 1920’s & 30s, underestimates Grindelwald. [Fired in 1939 and replaced shortly before Grindelwald's defeat in 1945]
Ireena
Izek Strazni
The best explanation for Izek's arm has to do with the Dark Powers that entrapped Strahd in the demiplane in the first place. The Dark Powers cultivate evil, and then entrap it in a karmic prison if it becomes bad enough. Part of how they cultivate evil is that when beings living under their purview perform deliberate acts of evil--they may notice and bestow a gift and a curse upon that individual. Early on, the gifts tend to outweigh the curses...but as you continue down the path of corruption, the Dark Powers are gradually transforming you into some sort of monstrous creature. Most evil beings just end up eventually turning into a monster, and that's the end of it. But if you do something spectacularly evil, you might get your own demiplane that serves as a karmic prison (i.e. your own personal hell). (Source)
Izek's arm is a dead-wringer for the arm of a Barbed Devil. Even the 'Hurl Flame' feature is identical. He is a cruel individual who uses force and intimidation to terrify people into doing what he wants, and the book calls out that even as a child, he was murdering other children for making fun of him. This certainly sounds like the sort of person that the Dark Powers would close in on. So, it could very well be that his Arm is a gift from the Dark Powers (perhaps his 'curse' has to do with the fact that any attempt at Persuasion is going to be hampered by the scary freaking demon arm). (Source)
A way this could play out in-game is that if Izek survives for any real length of time...especially if he starts doing terrible things to Ireena...could result in the Dark Powers continuing his transformation. (Harming innocents and, especially, family members is a phenomenal way to get the Dark Powers' attention) He could continue becoming more and more monstrous the more terrible things he does, until he ultimately turns into a creature much like a Barbed Devil. (Source)
Percival Graves
- a symbol of authority,
- a man in high places with his fingers in a lot of pies.
- He is well respected in MaCUSA as the Director of Magical Security,
- trusted by Seraphina Picquery who sees him as her ‘right hand man’,
- admired by Credence Barebone as a saviour who will make the troubled boy a wizarding legend.
- Descendent of Gondulphus Graves, first Auror of MaCUSA
Queenie Goldstein
- Pukwudgie
- Legilimens: skilled at memory extraction
- Described as a blonde bombshell flapper
- Born 1902?
Tina Goldstein [Scamander]
- Ilvermorny Thunderbird
- Auror
- Born 1901
- Eventually marries Newt Scamander
Arcturus Black
- father of Septimus Weasley, grandfather of Arthur Weasley, great-grandfather of Ron Weasley
- dating Lysandra Yaxley
Lysandra Yaxley
- Dating Arcturus Black
Belvina Black
- Dating Herbert Burke
Herbert Burke
- Dating Belvina Black
Phineas Black
Sirius Black (the elder)
- Dating Hesper Gamp
Hesper Gamp
- Dating Sirius Black (the elder)
Cygnus Black
- Dating Violetta Bulstrode
=== Martikov family —> Delacour family
- The women are Veela (elvish harpy shifters)
North American Wandmakers
Violetta Beauvais
* All of the wands she produced were made from swamp mayhaw wood.[2] For many years, she kept the core she used in her wands a closely-guarded secret, but it was eventually discovered to be rougarou hair.[2] Beauvais's wands were often accused of having a natural affinity for Dark magic.[2] However, many great American wizards of the 1920s used Beauvais-made wands, including President Seraphina Picquery.[2]
Shikoba Wolfe
* Of Chocktaw descent, Wolfe was best known for crafting wands that were intricately carved. Wands made by Wolfe contained Thunderbird tail feathers as cores and were generally believed to be extremely powerful, but difficult to master. They were especially sought after by practitioners of Transfiguration.[2] * (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Shikoba_Wolfe)
Thiago Quintana
* Quintana's wands caused a sensation when they were first introduced.[3] Sleek and unusually long in design, they produced spells of "force and elegance". They contained a single spine taken from the back of one of the White River Monsters native to Arkansas.[3] Initially, there were fears that the species was being over-fished, but the ecological impact was lessened by the fact that only Quintana knew how to lure the creatures.[3] He fiercely guarded this secret up until his death, after which wands containing White River Monster spine cores were no longer made.[3]
Johannes Jonker
* Jonker was born to No-Maj parents. His father was a successful cabinet maker, which presumably gave him early experience with wood-working, and allowed him to become a skilled wandmaker in his own right.[2] Jonker's wands were in great demand and could be easily identified by the mother-of-pearl inlay they typically contained.[2] Jonker experimented with several different wand cores before settling on hair of the Wampus cat as his preferred kind.[2] * By 1926, he was a known wandmaker and listed on the Magical Congress of the United States of America's Wand Permit form.[3]
Sources
https://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/fun-stuff/harry-potter-whos-who/