N P C: W E N D E L L - K E A T S
Details
Age: 34
Race: Human
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 171 lbs
Title: Member of the Covenant, Chancellor to Count Duncan of Trebaden
NPC Type: Personal NPC
Influence: 3
Relation to Taelian: Colleague
Skills
Artifice (Master), Politics (Expert), Rhetoric (Journeyman), Persuasion (Journeyman), Business (Journeyman), Finance (Journeyman), Negotiation (Apprentice), Tactics (Apprentice), Logistics (Apprentice), Law (Apprentice)
Description: Wendell was born into House Keats, a Celebrant family in Lorien of fairly low standing compared to most. When he was young, his father committed an act considered blasphemous upon the Kindred, seemingly influenced by the teachings of the Omen of Ulendreaism rather than the Rien sect. He publicly declared them to be demons in the form of crows, seducers and manipulators diverting the hearts and minds of the Rien people away from the truth. Shortly afterwards he was executed, as was his wife, and his first three children. The House of Keats would have been all but demolished had there not been one member spared -- a three year old boy, Wendell, who was allowed to carry on the name of a destitute family wracked with blood and shame.
These events carried on with Wendell for the rest of his life. Always did he have a hatred for the Kindred, an anguish and regret on the part of his family, and a wallflower-like distance stemmed from isolation. He had been largely secluded from the high life of the Celebrant due to his nature as part of a shamed house, others fearing what proximity to him might do to them in the eyes of the Omen and their Kindred overlords. Yet through a sufficient enough amount of time, Lord Keats managed to acquire influence through Artifice, as well as through his knowledge and skill as a statesman. Rising through Trebaden, his home county, in prominence... he joined with the Covenant through their outpost in Brandt, and with a hand extended from them he came into the favor of the Count.
Wendell is a man who is firm and willful, but one with a good heart. He cares for the fate of his people and serves what he believes to be the greater good. In the Year 120, he was connected to Taelian as a sort of retainer and ally of his while he engages in tasks for the Covenant in Lorien, the two intending to benefit from one another.
Note: I would like to remove Renfier de Neime as my personal NPC. Unfortunately I have never played him, had a use for him or found a way to fit him into my plot.
