Chia Oscuro

Chia Oscuro is settlement in the beginning of chapter 2, Terror Mountain. It is village of Chias who speak a incomprehensible dialect. They are the only Chia NPCs in the game besides Hubrid Nox. The only non-chia here is Thaddeus Jurples. You have to beat Leximp to get the Wordstone, at which point an inn and the shops become available.

NPCs

• Thaddeus Jurples: A Kougra who resides in this town but cannot comprehend them, though he does decipher that the chias are mentioning a wordstone present in a cave nearby.
• Ynhar: Just a Chia resident worried about the Snowager disappearing.
• Stolfr: Just a Chia resident worried about the Snowager disappearing.
• Aunoll: A Chia too afraid about the Snowager's disappearance to say anything.
• Lveydi: Just a Chia resident worried about the Snowager disappearing.
• Ullistl: A Chia that provides the players with a free inn.
• Girjor: Just a Chia resident worried about the Snowager disappearing.
• Jarasth: A merchant that sells weapons, armour, and healing and damage potions.
• Sthora: The chief elder of the town who tells the player about the Snowager.

Trivia

• Chiaoscuro is spelled remarkably like chiaroscuro, a technique of using light and dark in a work of art. It can also be translated from Italian as Dark Chia. Alternatively, in The Tale of Despereaux, a rather lonely rat is named Chiaroscuro.
• The Chias in Chiaoscuro don't actually "talk" -- they spew out random letters serving as placeholders of the words that they are supposed to say after the player gets the Wordstone. If you refresh enough, you might actually get something meaningful with an approximate (1 in 10⁶⁰ chance).