The characters of the Extinction Curse Adventure Path.
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Nemmia Bramblecloak
Race: Halfling
Alignment: Neutral Evil
An halfling zealot dedicated to Gozreh, she sees civilization as a plague to be eradicated.
- Animal Wrongs Group: Nemmia often sends animals to attack townspeople, believing that the civilized people have earned nature's vengeance.
- Evil Luddite: In her mind, all civilization is evil.
- Heel–Face Turn: Possible if the PCs take her under their wing and teach her the error of her ways.
- Starter Villain: The very first opponent faced in this Adventure Path
- Toxic Friend Influence: On the receiving end. The succubus Balenni is actively enabling Nemmia's hatred towards civilization for her own goals.
Cavnakash
Race: Xulgath
Alignment: Neutral Evil
A xulgath worshipper of Zevgavizeb and a fanatical admirer of the high priest Sarvel.
- Church Militant: He's a cleric of the demon lord Zevgavizeb, as well as a bloodthirsty warrior who is not afraid of a physical fight.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Even since he was young, Cavnakash has been feasting on the blood and flesh of other xulgaths.
- Psycho Supporter: He's 100% behind Sarvel and his campaign of destruction.
Andera Paldreen
Race: Human
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
The chief constable of the city of Escadar.
- By-the-Book Cop: She's frustrated with her city's corruption, but wants to change the situation through legal means.
- Daddy's Girl: She used to be one when she was little, until her father got in deep trouble over gambling debts.
- Not So Above It All: Andera tries to present a stoic and serious front, but she emjoys cutting loose and having a drink when she's with friends.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: A kind and caring woman behind her steely exterior.
Mistress Dusklight
Race: Catfolk
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
The cruel and unscrupulous mistress of the Celestial Menagerie.
- Arc Villain: The main villain of Legacy of the Lost God, and the leader of the circus the PCs likely escaped from.
- Bad Boss: Not one of her underlings enjoys working for her, that's for sure.
- Cats Are Mean: Well, she is a catfolk, and she's a real bad egg.
- Control Freak: Mistress Dusklight revels in exerting control over people, be it through manipulation, bribery or violence.
- Klingon Promotion: In a way. She became the mistress of the Celestial Managerie after poisoning the previous master.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's even got an aasimar paladin wrapped around her claws and convinced that she's a good, victimized woman.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: On the receiving end. Her abusive ways caused several of her performers (the PCs among which) to bail out on her and seek work elsewhere.
- Playing the Victim Card: She convinced the paladin Mazael to be a bodyguard for her by making him believe that her rivals are trying to assassinate her and ruin what she has built.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: The unscrupulous leader of the Celestial Menagerie.
- Whip of Dominance: She is the Repulsive Ringmaster of the Celestial Menagerie who not only is a major Bad Boss who mistreats all of her performers but also has a domineering personality that delights in having living beings submit to her. Appropriately, her main weapon is the Whip of Compliance, a magical whip that allows her to exert some control over any beast that is struck by it.
Thessekka
Race: Xulgath
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
A xulgath alchemist who leads the incursion of her people into the Isle of Kortos.
- Arc Villain: The main villain of Life's Long Shadows
- The Bully: Most of her minions follow her simply under threat of violence.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Thessekka is a stoneliege, a particular kind of xulgath infused with elemental earth, which gives her power over soil and stone.
- Mad Scientist: As an alchemist obsessed with fleshwarping and mixing dangerous chemicals, it's to be expected.
Sarvel Ever-Hunter
Race: Xulgath (demon-touched)
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
A fiendish priest of Zevgavizeb, Sarvel is the Apocalypse Prophet, fated to bring death and destruction upon the people of Kortos.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He declared himself the high priest of Zevgavizeb after killing and eating (not necessarily in that order) all those who opposed him.
- Bad Boss: Cares absolutely nothing for his underlings or his people.
- Big Bad: The main villain of the entire Extinction Curse Adventure Path, he plots to unleash the titular curse to destroy all life on the Isle of Kortos
- Big Eater: Definitely not played for laughs. See Horror Hunger below.
- Combat Tentacles: One of the "blessings" that his demon lord bestowed upon him was a bunch of writhing tentacles emerging from his back, which can be used in combat to lethal effect.
- High Priest: He's basically the "chosen one" of Zevgavizeb, the demon lord of reptiles.
- Horror Hunger: Sarvel's defining trait. He's afflicted with an unquenchable craving for flesh, which he even slakes upon his own followers.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Has no qualms against feeding on his own kind, particularly servants who fail or displease him.
- Lack of Empathy: He's quite simply incapable of caring about others.
- Large and in Charge: Sarvel is much bigger than your average xulgath, and he's unquestionably much stronger too. He's currently their leader in an unholy crusade against the surface dwellers.
- Omnicidal Maniac: In a somewhat limited scope. His plan is to use the apocalypse curse to scour away all life from the Isle of Kortos.
- Revenge Before Reason: Several of his fellow xulgaths have pointed out that, instead of destroying Kortos and the aeon orbs, it would make more sense to take back the orbs for themselves. He doesn't care.
