So, should he go into the “Sample NPC” list? What do people think?

Aspects
Murderous Demon Serial Killer
Shapeless Alien Blob
Relies on Psi for senses, communication and manipulation
Not a native of Kalyr
The Power of Mindswitch
Kills through Telekinesis
Needs a host for maximum effectiveness
The Servants of The Academy of Life Must Die!

Skills
Unarmed Combat: Superb
Mind Control: Superb
Body Control: Great
Telekinisis: Great
Endurance: Good
Willpower: Good
Stealth: Good
Athletics: Fair
Strength: Fair
Language (Native alien tongue, Mannish, Filgan, Vohrran): Fair
Administration: Fair
Natural Science: Average
Far-Sensing: Average
Mind-Reading: Average
Mindspeech: Average
Technical Devices: Average

Zoyvegkk Uup is an alien, of a strange race called The Drarth. His natural form is a shapeless blob. He can extrude pseudopods, and can even assume a vaguely humanoid shape when required, but he has to use psionics for senses, communication and fine manipulation.

Although there are others of his race living in remote parts of Kalyr, Zoyvegkk Uup is not himself a native, but was sent to Kalyr by some outside agency on a mission which involved some kind of investigation into the activities of The Academy of Life. Quite what that mission was, or even the name and origin of that outside agency is forgotten. Even to Zoyvegkk Uup, for he has forgotten.

Somewhere, and somehow, he ended up in a titanic battle involving both a kandar wizard and a skilled martial artist. The battle left Zoyvegkk’s two opponents dead, but Zoyvegkk himself seriously brain-burned. The pain turned him, never that stable in the first place, seriously insane, even by the standards strange standards of his race.

Zoyvegkk is now a serial killer, preying on the Academy of Life, and anyone who he suspects of serving them. Many of those he’s killed are innocents who had no links with the Academy.

He has many ways of killing. Sometimes he attacks physically, lashing out with pseudopods in all directions, using martial arts knowledge subsumed from the martial artist he fought. Sometimes he kills by Telekinesis alone. Sometimes he mind-controls his victims, forcing them to kill one another. Sometimes he mindswitches from victim to victim, channelling his martial arts skills through kandar and human bodies.

With 30 skill levels she’s actually at the upper end of the range of campaign power levels – she’s out of place for a street-level game.

Name: Karela Blerynthar
Context: Noble Artist and Assassin, Filgeth
Goal: Life for the moment
Appearance: Tall and slim female kandar with long, long legs and a figure to die for, Karela is guaranteed to draw attention (unless she’s trying not to). She has waist-length steel-black hair which she sometimes wears straight, sometimes in ringlets, braids, plaits or in bizarre creations if she considers a new style is essential for a formal meeting. Her skin is smooth with a hint of olive and her dark, almost black almond-shaped eyes are set off by high cheekbones. Her full lips might one moment be poised for a kiss, then a pout, then a cruel sneer.

Aspects
Lives more than a double life
Kandar daughter of depravity
Idle noble of Clan Blerynthar [Rank]
The art of assassination
Execute with precision and taste
Up close and personal
Looks to die for
Must avoid her parents

Skills
Stealth: Great
Charm: Great
Art: Good
Rank: Good
Melee (Knife, Fencing Blade): Good
Deceit: Fair
Athletics: Fair
Breaking and Entering: Fair
Perception: Fair
Willpower: Average
Insight: Average
Kandar Social Graces: Average
Languages: Average
Kandar Education: Average

With no particular duties to occupy her at home as the third daughter in a minor noble house of the Great Empire, Karela first took up painting, then fencing as ways to occupy her time in Keylin, beyond the decadent and depraved manner in which she was expected to lead her life. Her family has never been powerful enough to vie for power and has instead dedicated itself to the service of enough other great families to ensure its survival through any number of intrigues and purges, though a few members might be sacrificed. One of her uncles introduced her to the fine art of assassination and from then on her life hasn’t been the same.

Karela is as serious about assassination as she is about her painting, both are arts which deserve to be executed with skill, precision and taste. Not for her the random act of poisoning or the remoteness of the crossbow or flamelance. No, Karela likes the “up close and personal” approach, a dagger in the ribs, a slit throat in the night or the precise thrust of a rapier in a dim corridor or boudoir.

Karela presents three alternative faces to the world: An idle daughter of a noble house with nothing better to do than travel around, painting, visiting distant relatives, getting into scrapes and causing scandal. A competent, secretive assassin, whether as an agent of the Vulan or freelance. An amoral slut, forced by circumstance into a life of depravity. These three aspects are all part of Karela and she is likely to establish all three identities in a city, though the assassin will only appear if she has work to do.

She has no particular motives or goals, she simply seeks to pursue her arts, enjoy life as any decadent Kandar should, spend money, steer clear of her parents, serve the Vulan when necessary and gather enough dirt on other nobles so as to collect favours and protection for the rest of her life.

This is an old map of Filgeth I drew many years ago using Campaign Cartographer. For reasons which were probably to do with printing it out on an A4 page it’s rotated through 90 degrees – North is to the right, and west is at the top.

The west bank of the river (top part of the map) is the largely human-occupied part of the city, the east bank is the kandar side. The south-east quarter is the posh end.

Name: Zageyn d’n Zofeth
Appearance: Rough-hewn male kandar of early middle age.
Context: Security, The Academy of Knowledge, Filgeth
Goal: Defend the Academy of Knowledge

Aspects
Veteran Academy of Knowledge Security operative [High Concept, Rank]
Fiercely local to the guild
The end sometimes justifies the means
Mess with me, you mess with the Academy
Spirit forged from Vyrn

Skills
Willpower: Great
Streetwise: Great
Intimidation: Good
Unarmed Combat: Good
Tactics: Good
Rank: Fair
Missile Combat (Beam weapons): Fair
Athletics: Fair
Technical Devices: Fair
Perception: Average
Strength: Average
Endurance: Average
Stealth: Average
Melee Combat (Knife): Average

Name: Klavar Zadaz d’n Alathyr
Appearance: Young kandar man with a face twisted into a permanent sneer, with a prominent scar on one cheek.
Context: Knight, Clan Zadaz, Filgeth
Goal: Gets a kick out of pushing people around

Aspects
Arrogant young Knight of Clan Zadaz [High Concept, Rank]
Obnoxious bully
Appalling snob
Thinks he’s a better warrior than he really is
Knows the Citadel of Filgeth like the back of his hand
A Knight from The Temple of Art gave him that scar

Skills
Rank: Good
Melee (Sword): Good
Intimidation: Fair
Athletics: Fair
Unarmed Combat: Fair
Kandar Education: Average
Kandar Social Graces: Average
Willpower: Average
Strength: Average

With 20 skill levels arranged in a classic FATE pyramid, six aspects and three stunts, he’s below the power level of the PCs in the game.

Name: Argeyr Tyr
Context: Middle-ranking wizard, The Academy of the Mind, Filgeth
Appearance:  A rotund middle-aged kandar man
Goal: Preserve the status quo

Aspects
Conservative mid-ranking wizard [High Concept, Rank]
Minor scion of Clan Tyr [Rank]
Cautious Mind-Bender [Psionics]
Kaasranth Sar are a bunch of hot-headed idiots
Ferals will be the death of us
Who Ate All The Pies

Skills
Mind-Control: Great
Mind-Reading: Good
Rank: Good
Willpower: Fair
Mind-Sending: Fair
Kandar Education: Fair
Natural Science: Average
Kandar Social Graces: Average
Psionic Theory: Average
Thlan: Average

Stunts
Psionic Powers capped at Great (Counts as three stunts)