Plot: Let Sleeping Dragons Lie/NPCs

Agatha Vale

Agatha Vale was a Verbena scholar who worked as the librarian and archivist of the House of Keys during its busiest years in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Known for her silver hair and calm, steady presence, she treated the Chantry’s archives like a living garden—repairing books, blessing them, and keeping the whole collection spiritually balanced. Apprentices often remembered her as strict but kind, and her work helped organize the flood of magical texts brought back by returning mages after World War II. Agatha died in 1954, but her spirit never fully left the House. Today she appears as the ghostly librarian who still protects the shelves, corrects misplaced books, and warns modern mages away from parts of the Chantry she believes they aren’t ready to handle.

Charlie Carver

Charlie Carver is a working-class hedge mage who runs Carver’s Collectables, a small shop dealing in “found” items, occult scraps, and things he technically isn’t supposed to have. He isn’t a formally trained Tradition mage—he learned magic the hard way, pulling pieces together from rituals his late wife kept in old notebooks. Grieving, angry, and desperate, he taught himself just enough sorcery to get into trouble, which eventually led him to the House of Keys. Charlie broke into the Chantry’s outer library months ago and stole several books on behalf of an unnamed buyer, not realizing the House was beginning to wake. Although he’s not evil, he’s unpredictable and driven by personal motives, making him a wildcard in the ongoing attempts to restore the Chantry.