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* CapturedSuperEntity: The Vampire Kings derive the bulk of their power from "spirit shackles", arcane rituals that bind the spirits of the Shadowfell to their control and force them to grant various supernatural powers. The five Kings keep the best of these powers for themselves, while bestowing those which are redundant, incompatible with vampirism, or otherwise undesirable onto various lieutenants.


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While the vampire kings naturally bestow the bulk of the powers granted by the Spirit Shackles on themselves, many of these powers are redundant with other powers, incompatible with vampirism, or otherwise undesirable for the Kings. These powers are instead bestowed onto various lieutenants.
!! Baron Deathmoor
A lieutenant-archetype in Cornello's service, consisting of several CastFromLifespan powers. A previous Baron Deathmoor was killed by Rygax, and the current holder of the title is hampered by his lack of an {{Immortality}} power.
* CastFromLifespan: The abilities that make up the "Baron Deathmoor" archetype are powerful, but consume the wielder's life force to use. This is why Cornello (who as an undead has no life-force to spend), cannot keep these powers for himself.
** One of the party's main goals during the "Week of Hell" arc was to prevent the current Baron Deathmoor from drinking from the Oluanna spring and gaining immortality, which would have let him use his abilities without limit.
* LegacyCharacter: Like many lieutenants, Baron Deathmoor is less a specific individual and more an archetype created by a combination of shackles. Thus, when one Baron Deathmoor is killed another can soon be appointed.
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* ManBehindTheMan: The party fights a lot of his minions. Including a cult leader in Castle and a necromancer in Goodplace, but never encounter him directly.

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* ManBehindTheMan: The party fights a lot of his minions. Including a cult leader in Castle and a necromancer in Goodplace, but never encounter haven't encountered him directly.directly.
!!Lockhart
The Vampire King The rules of the equivalent of Urruk and the Elven lands.
* HufflepuffHouse: The party hasn't traveled in his lands or their corresponding lands in the Fadelands much, so they haven't dealt with his forces at at all.
* NiceHat: In his shadowed silhouette, he wears a hat. Since his position is a powerful one, there's a good chance it's magical in some way.
!!Hastings
The Vampire King which rules over the equivalent of Tarq.
* HufflepuffHouse: His forces haven't been encountered by the party.

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The Vampire King that rules over the Shadowfell equivalent of Verandi.

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The Vampire King that rules over the Shadowfell equivalent of Verandi.Verandi and Laric
* IHateYouVampireDad: Not fond of the vampire who turned her. [[spoiler: Considering it's Swayne, a fellow Vampire King, which are constantly at war, this really takes it beyond the pale.]]


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* UndeadChild: Alyssa has the body of a nine-year old girl. Creepy.
!!Cornello
The Vampire King that rules over the Shadowfell equivalent of eastern Vistria, Northern Urruk, and Korstraad.
* KlingonPromotion: Presumably. There are scant records of a Vampire King before Cornello, and it's hard to imagine them abdicating their position.
* MaliciousMisnaming: In a stinger, the party dubs him Cornholio. Yep.
* ManBehindTheMan: The party fights a lot of his minions. Including a cult leader in Castle and a necromancer in Goodplace, but never encounter him directly.
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The five vampires that rule over the continent.
!!Swayne
The Vampire King that rules over the Shadowfell equivalent of Western Vistria
*DissonantSerenity: He pretty much always looks bored, regardless of the situation.
*TheDreaded: Described as the most fearsome Vampire King, despite his limited territory. [[spoiler: When he shows up in person in episode 50, he has the party running scared.]]
*WalkingShirtlessScene: Wears nothing from the waist up but an unbuttoned leather jacket and a necklace.
!!Alyssa
The Vampire King that rules over the Shadowfell equivalent of Verandi.
*SheIsTheKing: Still called "King" despite being a women.
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!!The Shadowfell
[[folder: The Shadowfell in general]]
A dark reflection of the Fadelands.
*CrapsackWorld: Oh so much. The continent is split between five horrific vampire kings, the ocean is filled with eldritch horrors, and under the surface the Drow rule supreme.
*EldritchAbomination: The aptly named Fell Ocean is filled with them.
*ZombieApocalypse: The undead just seem to pop out of the ground there. And in the backstory, a major invasion from The Shadowfell led to the creation of the Warforged by the Ytarrans.
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Supervisor Huevo was once a mild-mannered and friendly overseer in the Corso's Chasm mining operations, but that was before he was taken prisoner by drow raiders. Horrifically disfigured by their poisoned knives, he was then dumped right next to a tree that radiates overpowering magical terror, and then left there, tied up, for hours. After he was rescued by the party, he adopted the name "Daggerface" after his horrific facial scars, and joined the party to hunt monsters. Was left behind when the party teleported to Vistria.

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Supervisor Huevo was once a mild-mannered and friendly overseer in the Corso's Chasm mining operations, but that was before he was taken prisoner by drow raiders. Horrifically disfigured by their poisoned knives, he was then dumped right next to a tree that radiates overpowering magical terror, and then left there, tied up, for hours. After he was rescued by the party, he adopted the name "Daggerface" after his horrific facial scars, and joined the party to hunt monsters. Was left behind when the party teleported to Vistria.Vistria, but rejoined them after the first adventures in Polaron.

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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: All the party despise slavery, and especially the omnipresent slavery that the Kua-Toa civilization runs on. Little One, however, is especially passionate about it.

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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: All the party despise slavery, and especially the omnipresent slavery that the Kua-Toa civilization runs on. Little One, however, is especially passionate about it. This extends even to beings whose living status is questionable, as we discover when his objection to Draven's plan to use an incorporeal undead in a bid to potentially cure their astral plague is mainly that they're enslaving the undead for their own means.



* AttackitsWeakPoint: One of her main rogue assets is her ability to strike the vital points of distracted or unbalanced targets, provided that they have vital points at all.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: Not that she ''is'' evil, but she often notes she has no morals and has even attacked a hostage of her opponents just to give them fewer options in the fight.


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** Most notably shown during Episode 43 when Black [[spoiler:pretty much single-handedly destroyed a ''Monitor''.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Has no clue who his father was, and doesn't really care.

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* DisappearedDad: Has no clue who his father was, and doesn't really care. The only thing we know is that his name was probably Darius, and Little One's mother wasn't his only draconic partner.
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* NoSell: [[spoiler:Apparently immune to Control Undead, attempted by a lieutenant of a vampire king. Said lieutenant's response suggests something of his nature is responsible for it.]]
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** TheBusCameBack: He returns at the end of the Polaron arc, rejoining the party to see a still fully-functional Ytarran facility.
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--> '''Draven:'' If ''I'' am taking damage, you know the fight isn't going well...'''

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* AttackitsWeakPoint: One of her main rogue assets is her ability to strike the vital points of distracted or unbalanced targets, provided that they have vital points at all.



* ForMassiveDamage: One of her main rogue assets is her ability to strike the vital points of distracted or unbalanced targets, provided that they have vital points at all.
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The most likely explanation for his decision to begin courting Lady Chrysanthemum Von Christoff (who despite her flowery name is every bit as {{Badass}} as her father).

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* GlassCannon: His wide variety of wands give him the highest damage of anyone in the party, but he's quite fragile if you can actually hit him.

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* GlassCannon: His He's always been fragile, but as the party reached higher levels his potential damage output reached this point; his wide variety of wands give him the highest damage of anyone in the party, but he's quite fragile if party (when its worth spending the charges to dish out maximized force damage).
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you can actually hit him.know the fight isn't going well...'''



* KillSteal: In their early adventures, the party noticed an unusual trend where, despite his low attack damage, he would end getting the final blow on many of their enemies. It's since become a RunningGag that both the player and character do this on purpose (they don't)



* FasterThanTheyLook: He commonly makes use of the spell Knight's Move to pull this off a few times a day by teleporting right into a flanking position with an ally. Otherwise, see MightGlacier below



* StraightMan: In-character, very much. The player himself seems to be more of a DeadpanSnarker



* CensorBox: His face is always covered by one after the scarring



Back when the Ytarrans still lived, GE-7 was simply a menial worker in the laboratory/temple of Ginaron. But after the death of the Ytarrans in the Astral Plague, GE-7 devoted himself to studying the mysteries of artficing and to the worship of Ytaru, God of artifice, innovation, and discovery. While most other Warforged either put themselves in stasis or broke down from lack of repairs, GE-7 learned enough to sustain his Warforged body indefinitely, and was still functional nearly a thousand years later when the party stumbled across him within the depths of Ginaron.

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Back when the Ytarrans still lived, GE-7 was simply a menial worker in the laboratory/temple of Ginaron. But after the death of the Ytarrans in the Astral Plague, GE-7 devoted himself to studying the mysteries of artficing artificing and to the worship of Ytaru, God of artifice, innovation, and discovery. While most other Warforged either put themselves in stasis or broke down from lack of repairs, GE-7 learned enough to sustain his Warforged body indefinitely, and was still functional nearly a thousand years later when the party stumbled across him within the depths of Ginaron.
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* GuestStarPartyMember: As Zaheer's leadership cohort, Mahar joined and left when he did.
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!!Vistria
[[folder: Vistria as a nation]]
The last of the Three Brother Nations, Vistria is a kingdom on the edge of catastrophe. Locked in a perpetual war against the evil Kua-Toa on three sides, and the vicious Orcish warbands on the fourth, Vistria still carries the legacy of the Smith.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Heavily inspired by Western European culture and government, though with far more ethnic diversity due to the number of refugees they've taken in over the years.
* FantasticRacism: A major issue in Vistria. Since Vistria's own population is almost exclusively human, and the only non-humans they have regular contact with are the Kua-Toa, the aquatic slave armies that serve the Kua-Toa, and the vicious Orcs, a fair amount of pro-human racism has accumulated.
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* DisappearedDad: Has no clue who his father was, and doesn't really care.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half human, half bronze dragon.
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* PutOnABus: Last seen heading off to speak with the elves, perhaps the only people who remember as much as he does.
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Back when the Ytarrans still lived, GE-7 was simply a menial worker in the laboratory/temple of Ginaron. But after the death of the Ytarrans in the Astral Plague, GE-7 devoted himself to studying the mysteries of artficing and to the worship of Ytaru, God of artifice, innovation, and discovery. While most other Warforged either put themselves in stasis or broke down from lack of repairs, GE-7 learned enough to sustain his Warforged body indefinitely, and was still functional nearly a thousand years later when the party stumbled across him within the depths of Ginaron.
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* HeroicSacrifice: {{Averted}}. While the DM's script called for him to sacrifice himself to destroy the malfunctioning teleport gate, the party TookAThirdOption and discovered how to save him.
* LastOfHisKind: GE-7 is one of the handful of "Ancients" who survived all the way from Ytarran times to the modern day.
* PoweredArmor: Thanks to several ''centuries'' of cumulative tinkering, his Ytarran Power armor is an incredibly advanced bit of {{Magitek}}. He gives it to the party in preparation for a HeroicSacrifice, and is happy to let them keep it when they figure out how to actually save him.
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* IKnowKungFaux: Tended to become this while fighting with the party, due to inexplicable bad luck on his dice rolls.

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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The most likely explanation for his decision to begin courting Lady Chrysanthemum Von Christoff (who despite her flowery name is every bit as {{Badass}} as her father).




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[[folder: Supervisor Huevo/"Daggerface"]]
Supervisor Huevo was once a mild-mannered and friendly overseer in the Corso's Chasm mining operations, but that was before he was taken prisoner by drow raiders. Horrifically disfigured by their poisoned knives, he was then dumped right next to a tree that radiates overpowering magical terror, and then left there, tied up, for hours. After he was rescued by the party, he adopted the name "Daggerface" after his horrific facial scars, and joined the party to hunt monsters. Was left behind when the party teleported to Vistria.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: His horrific facial scarring lends him his new name.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Apparently went on to have quite a few adventures of his own after separating from the party.
* IKnowKungFaux: Tended to become this while fighting with the party, due to inexplicable bad luck on his dice rolls.
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* NiceHat: [[spoiler: His Hat of Disguise causes him to look like a flesh-and-blood human under his robes.]]


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[[folder: Don DiCorso]]
The ruler of the mining town of Corso's Chasm and a close ally of the humans, Don DiCorso serves as the mastermind behind the Spoons Of Plenty quest arc.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Does some degree of trading with the Illud faction of the Kua-Toa, including trading a StaticStunGun for one of the three Spoons Of Plenty.
* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: Already has one of the three Spoons in his possession at the time he hires the party.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Standardly dwarfy dwarf.
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!!Tarq
[[folder: Tarq as a nation]]
The dwarven nation of Tarq comprises a large chunk of what used to be the territory of the Ytarrans, before all the Ytarrans died off. These days it is principally inhabited by the dwarves, who spread south from the three ancient dwarfholds in the wake of the Ytarran's disappearance, glutting themselves on the empty space.
The dwarves of Tarq are divided into several clans, each ruled by a "Don". It should also be noted that Tarq is the only major nation to border both the Illud and the Deluvian factions of the Kua-Toa, putting it in a unique position with regard to their EnemyCivilWar.
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* LostTechnology: There are still caches of ancient Ytarran {{Magitek}} hidden throughout the land. Uncovering one of these can produce relics of unimaginable value.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Mostly fit the trope.
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: All the party despise slavery, and especially the omnipresent slavery that the Kua-Toa civilization runs on. Little One, however, is especially passionate about it.



* ValuesDissonance: Little One finds Warforged!Daggerface disgusting because it fights for pay, against people who are not his enemies. In Little One's mind, you should only fight to protect or for vengeance or at least to conquer and test your skills. In addition, Little One finds Daggerface's decision to spare Little One's life after Little One refused to surrender ''deeply'' humiliating. As a result, Little One has sworn to get vengeance on Daggerface if he ever encounters him again.



* ArcherArchetype: His primary weapon is his convoluted {{Magitek}} crossbow.



* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Kua-Toa are currently squatting on his ancestral lands, though his artificing skills earn him a comfortable existence in Vistria.



* ChurchMilitiant: Kind of comes with the territory when you worship the God Of Justice and Protection.

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* GuestStarPartyMember: Zaheer's player could only join the group for a single summer.


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[[folder: Mahar]]
This mysterious monk serves as Zaheer's guardian and companion, always at his master's side. [[spoiler: Under his hood and robes (and his Hat of Disguise), he is in fact an undead skeleton. Why the cleric of an undead-hating demigod has an undead bodyguard is something of a mystery, but hopefully one that will be resolved eventually.]]
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* BareFistedMonk: Classical example.
* DeadToBeginWith: [[spoiler: A skeleton]].
* DemBones: [[spoiler: He's a skeleton]].
* ReviveKillsZombie: Like his master, Mahar is healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy.

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* IShallTauntYou: Seems to have put a few skill ranks into Knowledge(Insulting Kua-Toa). From decorating his shield with Kua teeth to getting Angel to write insults in Kuar on that same shield to sticking a fishing line in water that he strongly suspects to be occupied by Kua, Little One wastes no opportunities to rub his disrespect for the Kua in their scaly faces. Perhaps the best example yet came when, upon slaughtering a Kua-Toa patrol, he cut their heads off, impaled the bodies on stakes upside-down, and then stuck the head back on top of the whole mess. In other words, the Kua have their heads up their behinds.



* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: His initial motivation for hating the Kua-Toa.







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Possibly the last surviving inhabitant of the village of Kuraj, Zaheer is a cleric of Ankou, the Shepherd of the Dead. He and his guardian Mahar temporarily join ranks with the party after meeting during the Woodbridge zombie outbreak, before he disappeared again during the Feywild mission.
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* DeadToBeginWith: [[spoiler: While far from dead, Zaheer's not entirely alive either]].
* DontFearTheReaper: Ankou is a god of death, but he's very benevolent.
* ReviveKillsZombie: Zaheer is healed by negative energy and hurt by positive energy, due to [[spoiler: not being 100% alive]].
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* ArmorOfInvincibility: Acquired some scales from his mother to use in crafting this.



* CoolSword: His +2 ColdIron [[ShockAndAwe Shocking]] Longsword.



* SeeTheInvisible: Splashed Dragonfire Adept to gain 24/7 access to this ability, making him one of the few who can see through the omnipresent Kua-Toa cloaks.



* CeilingCling: Her Slippers Of Spiderclimbing let her walk on walls (or the ceiling).



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* GadgeteerGenius: He's an artificer.
* GlassCannon: His wide variety of wands give him the highest damage of anyone in the party, but he's quite fragile if you can actually hit him.
* HappilyMarried: Tolerably so. He and Ivana aren't the most passionate of couples, but they do appear to care for each other and get along quite well.
* SwissArmyWeapon: He's incorporated a number of his favorite wands into a kind of rotating mount in the stock of his magitech crossbow.


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[[folder: Reginald Black]]
Like Draven, Black is a member of the Hand Of Sirius, and is in fact a priest of Sirius himself. In battle, Black is slow but unrelenting, his massive mace crushing any monster that tries to stand before him.

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* ChurchMilitiant: Kind of comes with the territory when you worship the God Of Justice and Protection.
* TheMedic: In addition to his other powers, Black is also the party's main healer.
* MightyGlacier: Black is cripplingly slow in his full-plate, but he hits like a truck, is practically impregnable, and if someone does hit him his backlash spells will punish them for attempting it.
* PowerArmor: Gets a suit of highly advanced Ytarran Power Armor during the Ginaron arc.
* Stealth Pun: A priest of ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Sirius]]'' named ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Black]]''
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[[folder: Little One]]
The half-dragon son of Lady Vasarus of the Bronze, Little One is one of probably less than a dozen living (non-trout) people to have grown up inside the Peacebond. His mother taught him secrets of battle such as very few now know, and since the evil Kua-Toa slew her he has used those talents for vengeance against them.

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* BreathWeapon: He now has ''two'' of these: A powerful 1/day lightning-bolt from his mother, and a weak but repeatable cone of flame from his Dragonfire Adept splash.
* MasterSwordsman: As a Warblade, Little One's martial skills are without peer.
* NonIndicativeName: Little One is about six and a half feet tall, and built to match. On the other hand, it was his mother who gave him the name, and she's a dragon.
* RedBaron: After defeating an orc in single combat, Little One becomes known far and wide as "Orcslayer".
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[[folder: Angel Bloodright]]
A Whisper Gnome assassin, Angel is a member of The Organization, a secret society dedicated to fighting the evil Kua-Toa invaders. Fast, lethal, and more than a bit mercenary, Angel has become one of the deadlier thorns in the Empire's side.
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* ChainsawGood: Favors spiked chains in combat.
* EyeOfNewt: Got a poison recipe with Kua-Toa spleens as one of the main ingredients as a present from another Organization member.
* ForMassiveDamage: One of her main rogue assets is her ability to strike the vital points of distracted or unbalanced targets, provided that they have vital points at all.
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[[folder: Draven Rowe]]
The rightful Marquis of Rowan, Draven is one of the wealthier and higher-ranking nobles of Verandi. Or rather, he would be if Rowan and all the rest of Verandi hadn't been conquered by the trouts decades ago, driving Draven's ancestors north to take refuge in Vistria. Draven still enjoys a better life than most of his countrymen, as his marriage to the daughter of the wealthy Baron Silverlode has provided the starting capital for him to fully leverage his talent for artificing. He is also an agent of the Hand Of Sirius, a semi-secret order dedicated to the protection of humanity throughout all the world.
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