NPCs for Gulhuva

Whether you are a Väruld fan looking to bring more life to your campaigns, or a GM in any system searching for distinctive characters to populate your world, this book offers people with personalities, histories, and ambitions of their own.

Journey through Gulhuva, a vast land of forests, mountains, scattered settlements, and communities shaped by local traditions rather than central authority. Meet 30 fully realized NPCs, from ruthless assassins and ambitious wizards to hardworking craftspeople, wandering travellers, and scholars guarding dangerous knowledge.

Each character comes with appearance, personality, personal history, motivations, secrets, and suggestions for how to introduce them into your game. Their individual struggles, relationships, and ambitions provide opportunities for encounters, conflicts, and unexpected developments, whether they become trusted allies, troublesome acquaintances, or formidable enemies.

The book also includes 12 detailed objects, each with its own character and history, ready to add another layer of depth to your adventures.

Why choose Väruld? 

 In Väruld, magic is rare and boundless. Only a few can wield it, and for them, the only limit is their strength, but every spell must be balanced, or the consequences will ripple through the land. Time flows differently here. A single orbit of Väruld’s sun takes 300 Earth-years, and there are no 'years' as we know them. Life is lived by the rhythms of nature, by seasons, cycles, and stories passed down through generations. How would you mark your age in such a world? What would a journal look like without a calendar? 

Väruld is system agnostic, a sandbox ready for your stories, written or created during the tabletop RPG sessions.

Why this book?

• System-neutral: Works with any RPG ruleset.
• Plug-and-play: Use NPCs as allies, rivals, quest-givers, or complications.
• World-rich detail: Each entry reveals part of Gulhuvas’s society and daily life.
• A short description of the country is included.
• An overview of Väruld is inluded.
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Bring depth, drama, and human stories to your game.

Let the people of Gulhuva walk into your world.

The country Gulhuva itself is found here: https://payhip.com/b/SG4e0

What you get

30 NPCs, Half of them men, half of them women, including trans characters. They are spread out in age, from young adults, to old, most of them in the middle. 

Each character has a full-page illustration and about 3 pages of description, including background and example dialogues.

There is a printer-friendly version of the material, as well as an epub.

Can they be used on their own, without Gulhuva and Väruld?

Yes, but be aware that they have a background and a situation that match the culture of Gulhuva and the place where they live.

ISBN: 978-91-89528-45-1

The use of AI

The illustrations are made by AI though one of my own tools. The text has passed through AI checks, including possible rewrite.

Contact

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des.nordlund@gmail.com